Diane Paulus quotes

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle. (Diane Paulus)
Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.
Diane Paulus
Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.
Diane Paulus
At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.
Diane Paulus
Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.
Diane Paulus
The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
Diane Paulus
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.
Diane Paulus
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
Diane Paulus
I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.
Diane Paulus
When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.
Diane Paulus
Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites. (Diane Paulus)
My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.
Diane Paulus
As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.
Diane Paulus
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.
Diane Paulus
I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.
Diane Paulus
I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We've done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to be challenged, but who also won't be falling asleep at the theater.
Diane Paulus
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.
Diane Paulus
I don't want to be in an art bubble.
Diane Paulus
Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical.
Diane Paulus