The first time someone stood up in front of the fire and told the story while illustrating it with shadows on the walls of the quarry, that was the birth of theater. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I'm trying to tell history with a capital H through histories with a small h. It moves people, because you know in your own personal relationships, your own story, there's an echo to a much larger reality. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who I am… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing. Opera and… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Everybody loves Vegas, and everybody puts it down, especially intellectuals and artists. We have to rub our feet on it, but we're all secretly… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know how to… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
