Robert Lepage

Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who…

— Robert Lepage

We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing.…

— Robert Lepage

The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world.

— Robert Lepage

For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.

— Robert Lepage

I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music.

— Robert Lepage

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

Everybody loves Vegas, and everybody puts it down, especially intellectuals and artists. We have to rub our feet on it, but we're…

— Robert Lepage

I've always had a passion for geography. Even at a very young age.

— Robert Lepage

I want to be surprised by life... I think that's more interesting.

— Robert Lepage

Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations.

— Robert Lepage

My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not…

— Robert Lepage

A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know…

— Robert Lepage

In everything I've done, I've always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them.

— Robert Lepage

When I went into the conservatory at 17, then I was able to open up and accept everything about myself and show…

— Robert Lepage

During the tour of 'Circulations,' we spent a lot of time in Canadian Chinatowns. I was fascinated by the idea that you…

— Robert Lepage

A lot of people hated every moment of my 'Ring.' And a lot of people who had never been to an opera…

— Robert Lepage

Theatre's still expensive compared to downloading on Netflix; that has to be addressed. It doesn't mean it has to be over-subsidised by…

— Robert Lepage

Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but…

— Robert Lepage

I'm a follower of people not necessarily connected with the theater.

— Robert Lepage

When we were working on 'River Ota' in the '90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it…

— Robert Lepage

'The Blue Dragon' uses very filmic language and involves a lot of technology. It is more cinematic than theatrical and was inspired…

— Robert Lepage

The first time someone stood up in front of the fire and told the story while illustrating it with shadows on the…

— Robert Lepage

Vegas is a testing ground for the human soul. What are our values, especially in a time of crisis? Work with Cirque…

— Robert Lepage

I've always been a little scared of technology, which is why I explore it.

— Robert Lepage

I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I…

— Robert Lepage