Philippe Petit Quotes
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I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.
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It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.
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I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
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I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
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What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.
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If I had been born in the circus, my parents would have pushed me on that little high wire at four years old. That's when the body is most limber to learn those acrobatics.
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Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.
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I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.
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Certainly, in the story of my life, the walk between the Twin Towers was one of the grandest, one of the most memorable, but not solely the grandest and the most memorable.
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I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection.
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I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.
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My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
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Obsessed people are not humorless at all.
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I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me.
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It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.
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My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.
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When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.
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I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.
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My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer.
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I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.
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I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie.
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Metaphorically speaking, of course, if I put a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep, very often because my brain went to sleep with that idea or the problem alive, very often in the middle of the night I wake up, and I wake up with a solution or with a direction of solution.
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I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.
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Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.