Peter Sellars Quotes

You collect all this material and at a certain moment passages start speaking with other passages... A conversation that goes along with individual source material just takes off, and things start ricocheting and having surprising connections or counterbalances. You're always looking for yin and yang so the drama thrives on contrasts and contradictions. - Peter Sellars

We are naturally disappointed and hope that the issue between the LME and the OFT can be resolved as speedily as possible. - Peter Sellars

These are not just made-up stories. These were real human beings with real choices ? and some folly... And this was the single biggest weapons project in the history of humanity. - Peter Sellars

The nightmare of all art, as well as of all politics, is generalities. - Peter Sellars

Of course I will make it completely contemporary, as did Mozart. Even then, Europe was obsessed with the ?menace' of the Muslim world. - Peter Sellars

Obviously, he had this native intelligence, this sensitivity and this ability to move rapidly through a whole range of material... You could just feel him taking stuff in with that gadfly energy, that hummingbird energy, taking a little something from here, there and everywhere, taking a little something from everything. - Peter Sellars

John sets it for Gerry [Gerald Finley, the baritone singing Oppenheimer] and full orchestra as a personal chaconne. Of course, you know that Robert Oppenheimer would be somebody who would have gone to an Alfred Deller concert or would have Alfred Deller records. - Peter Sellars

It's an amazing, amazing work of art that extracts and exacts every drop of blood... It demands and pushes you past ... endurance, which is what art is supposed to do. This is just not another day at the mall. It's really asking the biggest questions and demanding very real answers. - Peter Sellars

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