I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.
From Philippe Petit
My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer.
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.
I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.
I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.
Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.
Obsessed people are not humorless at all.
If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That's when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics.
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.
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