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Yes, I've been in love, but I guess I'm too involved with myself and my work. I think I'm in love with my work, and I'm in love with the people I work with.

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My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.

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I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

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I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day.

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The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.'

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My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school.

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I think that I've always been a kind of structured person.

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There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: October 4th, 1941

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