Diane Paulus
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.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Ocean
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.Collection: Way
The idea of making audiences feel like they matter, that the theatre matters, and that they're a partner in the event—that's what fuels me as a director . . . I believe it's actually radical to think about the audience.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Mean
The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.Collection: Innovation
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.Collection: Team
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Fall
I don't want to be in an art bubble.Collection: Art
Creativity is a form of knowledge.Collection: Creativity
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.Collection: Art
I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.Collection: People
When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.Collection: Art
Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.Collection: Parent
My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.Collection: America
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.Collection: Teaching
As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.Collection: Directors