Performance Genres Quotes

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.

At a certain moment, when I started doing my own shows, I felt it would be really interesting to know what is the history of my profession. I realized that there was no book, which was kind of a shock.

But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the '90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that sense that there weren't as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years.

I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way.

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

Sometimes I get a little confused because with dancing I can express my emotions with my body. With acting you have to do it with your face and your expressions, and then with animated shows you have to use your voice and use your inflections. So it's definitely a challenge to transfer from each genre of entertainment.