Robert Lepage Quotes

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

I do my best creating on stage.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.

To endeavor to rehabilitate the sabbath of our forefathers is as foolish as to try to make people go back into log houses and cook in a fire-place. Some persons can never realize that the world grows; that what was a help to one age becomes a hindrance to another; that time corrects the mistakes of men and that respect and reverence for our ancestors does not necessarily require us to adopt their clothes or their habits.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.