Robert Lepage Quotes

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist is there, the electricity of someone touching, massaging and torturing themselves to get life out of an inanimate object.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

I was always interested in choreography - in making people think and feel something.

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

Magic is my paint.

I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

What's kind of wonderful about being the voice in an animated film is you're a small part of an enormous production. And in a way, you get to remain a little bit objective.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.