Diane Paulus famous quotes

04-17-2025

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.
-- Diane Paulus

#Children #Creativity #Play
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

#Way #Theater
I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.
-- Diane Paulus

#People #Levels #Epiphany
The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
-- Diane Paulus

#Innovation #Musical #Theater
I don't want to be in an art bubble.
-- Diane Paulus

#Art #Want #Bubbles
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

#Team #Player #Dedication
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

#Ocean #People #Feelings
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

#Fall #Cutting #People
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

#Mean #Voice #Giving
When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.
-- Diane Paulus

#Art #Directors #Kind
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

#Art #Believe #Roots
Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.
-- Diane Paulus

#Parent #Theatre #Opera
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
-- Diane Paulus

#Art #Drama #Singing
My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.
-- Diane Paulus

#America #Directors #Generations
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

#Teaching #Class #Towns
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.
-- Diane Paulus

#Beautiful #Gold #Sitting
As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.
-- Diane Paulus

#Directors #Answers #Feels
The idea of making audiences feel like they matter, that the theatre matters, and that they're a partner in the eventâ€”that's what fuels me as a director . . . I believe it's actually radical to think about the audience.
-- Diane Paulus

#Believe #Thinking #Ideas
Creativity is a form of knowledge.
-- Diane Paulus

#Creativity #Form

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