My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?
I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.
I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex.
I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I'd like to do a play that would run for days. I don't think time is that important. Nature doesn't hurry the sky, the changing clouds and sunsets.
Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.
As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.
