Robert Lepage Quotes

Theatre is like an actor's nectar, like how cinema is a director's medium.

I love working in the theater.

I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.

In my heart of hearts, I love theatre. It's the joy and terror of putting a play on, the creativity of it. It is infinitely harder than film and television and more tiring. Your performance is heightened in the way it isn't with film.

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.

Really, the impetus driving me is I've always sung, but I like to act, I like drama, I like text, which is why opera is something I've come late to, I'd say.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.

We've taken some performing arts schools on the set of 'Breaking Bad.'

I'd like to direct more operas.

I don't know why every actor doesn't do more plays.

I trained in the theatre.

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

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

I'm studying theater and media. I don't really know why I took media, because I'm so useless with technology, though it's fun. But, I do love theater and am having a great time learning about all the practitioners and getting to perform with my friends.

I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.

Theatre is a very beautiful and interesting medium because it's a live show, unlike a film - once released, it's gone.