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If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message?

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My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

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When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.

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If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.

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Chairs are like sculpture.

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

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I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

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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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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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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: October 4th, 1941

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