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.
rehearsal start work
I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.
variations
I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.
attracted music patterns
I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.
I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person.
founder invited money paying ridiculous speak
Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'
Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly.
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.
asked
I did a masterclass at the Juilliard and asked the students, 'Can you stand?' 'Sure.' 'Can you walk?' 'Sure.' They couldn't. They had never really thought about it.
anyone bother half hear hour later lists notes people time
I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day.
people work
I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How can you work so much?' I don't think about it as work. I think of it as a way to live.
The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.'
imagine
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.