Robert Lepage Quotes

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

Let's just start and see what happens.

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

I've never had a grand plan. I've only just tried to keep open to many different possibilities, have fun and work with people who are passionate about what they do.

I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

I'm not a planner. I like to try something different, to just see what happens.

I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.

I never rule anything out, you never know what's to come.

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

If you are open-minded and you let the universe come in, you never know where things might go.

I tend to go with the flow and that flow can end up in great places or not so great places.

Take a chance. Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know. And don’t fall in love with Plan A.

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.