If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message? Robert Wilson Read Quote
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.’ Robert Wilson Read Quote
I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it. Robert Wilson Read Quote
New York is very provincial. They’re very cut-off; they don’t have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world. Robert Wilson Read Quote
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space. Robert Wilson Read Quote
I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, ‘You’re so cold when you perform,’ and she said, ‘You didn’t listen to the voice.’ She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face. Robert Wilson Read Quote
