Every time you watch a performance in the theatre, you know that this is just for you, and will never be the same again. It is quite exciting for me.
Robert DessaixIn the theatre, you are in love with what is on the stage, with the moment. You just don't get that with movies or videos, or TV, where you know that what you are seeing is repeatable.
Robert DessaixIt is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are difficult for me as it is all too close - I can't see the woods for the trees.
Robert DessaixThe Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though.
Robert DessaixWonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.
Robert DessaixI think that in this globalised world, the local is going to become more and more important - it is a paradox. You see it in Western Europe more and more. Eastern Europe is still coming out of the Soviet uniform cultural era, but this kind of separation and nationalism is very obvious now in Western Europe.
Robert Dessaix