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In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world.
Increasingly, I find myself drawn to classic forms - to Euripides, Shakespeare and grand opera.
It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.
Light is architectural. It is sculptural.
Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than... →
Most theater tells you what to think.
My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people.
My work should be seen as poetry.
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.
Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly.
The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.'
The mind is a muscle.
The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.