” In everything I’ve done, I’ve always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them. “
” My naivety is to assume people will think there’s compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them. “
” With the social media phenomenon, where people’s opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of ‘likes’ decides what we should program, I cringe. “
” There’s not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I’m not anti-democracy, but there’s no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one. “
” As a kid, my dad moved us to the upper town, which was in a higher class of people, and we would see the lower town below. Every day, we could see where we came from and where we were now. “
” If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that. “
” Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know their parts. And they move differently. I find all this liberating. “
” A lot of people hated every moment of my ‘Ring.’ And a lot of people who had never been to an opera bought subscriptions to the next season. “
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