Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And the way we can actually control the pain -- it's how to control everything. This is the key.

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.