“I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face.”

American experimental theater director and playwright

Robert Wilson was an American experimental theater director and playwright. He worked across several disciplines, including choreography, performance, painting, sculpture, video art, and sound and lighting design. He is best known for Einstein on the Beach, created with Philip Glass and Lucinda Childs, and for his frequent collaborations with Tom Waits. In 1991, he founded The Watermill Center on Long Island, New York, as a place for performance work, and he continued to work with opera and theater companies and with cultural festivals.