Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson
An American author, philosopher, psychologist, and essayist, he co-authored The Illuminatus! Trilogy with Robert Shea. His other popular works include Schrodinger's Cat (a novel) and Wilhelm Reich in Hell (a play).
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 January 1932
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
cynics equally everybody except idealists regarded
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt. . . . Idealists regarded everybody equally corrupt, except themselves.
full present time update work
I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex.
It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new.
family interested life met summer vacation visited
When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting.
available data dope guide history madmen normal noticed periods reality visions
. . . there are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.
guess love people work
Yes, I've been in love, but I guess I'm too involved with myself and my work. I think I'm in love with my work, and I'm in love with the people I work with.
We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go.
playing
When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.
When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity.
constant excited floor grew lie oriental others preaching presence reminder treasure wisdom
All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: "Just lie down on the floor and keep calm.
body
Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.
choose emotions enjoyable freedom fun happy inflicted internal mechanical problems solve stuck
The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.
advantage lies lies-and-lying outside production rio therefore
Comparative advantage in the production of many of these requirements therefore lies outside China, with suppliers such as Rio Tinto.
broader material opera presented range
I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They value contemporary opera.