94 Quotes by Robert Wilson

I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person.

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.'

Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly.

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.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Comparative advantage in the production of many of these requirements therefore lies outside China, with suppliers such as Rio Tinto.

All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: "Just lie down on the floor and keep calm.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt. . . . Idealists regarded everybody equally corrupt, except themselves.

It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.