Quotes of: Wagner Keyword

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Richard Foreman

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

Richard Foreman

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

Trevor Nunn

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

Trevor Nunn

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

Trevor Nunn

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

Neville Marriner

Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical.

Diane Paulus

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

Kurt Masur

The mission of the A.R.T. is to expand the boundaries of theater through works of the canon and the new works of tomorrow.

Diane Paulus

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

Garry Hynes

I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.

Garry Hynes

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

Gioachino Rossini

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

Neville Marriner

Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.

Robert Wilson

After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

Zubin Mehta

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

The Birth of Tragedy/The Case of Wagner

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

Richard Foreman

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

Richard Foreman

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

Diane Paulus

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

Phylicia Rashad

I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those '60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.

Edie Campbell