I'm an artist, not a philosopher.
From Robert Wilson
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.
Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.
If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way.
Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite.
I did a masterclass at the Juilliard and asked the students, 'Can you stand?' 'Sure.' 'Can you walk?' 'Sure.' They couldn't. They had never really thought about it.
I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How can you work so much?' I don't think about it as work. I think of it as a way to live.
When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.
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