A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

I didn't give any instruction to the video, because it was a new medium. I didn't know what to tell him; it was so young. I did the piece and immediately after the piece, I wanted to see the material.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.

The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.

I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.