Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

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

That's something that I'm trying to do in my work, to send a message to western people. They're the ones who are completely disconnected.

I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.

We always think of our own profit, but not in connection to others.

You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

There are two kinds of loss of hope, one is the feeling when your pulse slows down and you are going to die, and there's nothing else left. The other loss of hope is when you're living in a country which becomes insecure, and you don't know what the future is. That's existential.