Robert Lepage

You're only as good as your last movie, period. It's a business.

Vegas is the city of temptation. I think, perhaps, it is an experiment by NASA. If we're going to send people to Mars, how will we create false economies and cultures to satisfy them? Vegas has the answer. People go there when they've nothing left to lose.

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

I enjoy juggling four or five different projects in the air and finding connections and disconnections between them.

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

When I went into the conservatory at 17, then I was able to open up and accept everything about myself and show my feminine side as well as my masculine.

Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true.

If Darwin's theories are true, then we have within us the physical memory of when we were fish or apes.

People talk about fantastic memories of childhood, but I remember children being cruel to me and wanting to come out of childhood as soon as possible because I knew adults were generally more contained in their cruelty.

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

The real writing of a piece comes only when you are performing it. It is why I like theatre. In film and TV, the image is locked forever, but in theatre, there is constant change; each performance is part of the writing process.

I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty.