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When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

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I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

From Robert Wilson

What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.

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I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

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The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

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New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.

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My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?

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The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.

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Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'

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