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Robert Wilson

American

October 4, 1941

Director

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The mind is a muscle.

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I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.

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

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The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

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It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Robert Wilson Lynd

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I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.

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Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

Robert Wilson Lynd

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There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

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

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When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

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As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.

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I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge.

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I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

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One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

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What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

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Yes, I've been in love, but I guess I'm too involved with myself and my work. I think I'm in love with my work, and I'm in love with the people I work with.

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To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

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My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?

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I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I'd like to do a play that would run for days. I don't think time is that important. Nature doesn't hurry the sky, the changing clouds and sunsets.

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My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school.

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