Diane Paulus

I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.

— 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…

— Diane Paulus

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us…

— Diane Paulus

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play…

— Diane Paulus

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…

— Diane Paulus

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

— Diane Paulus

I think every theater in America wants a younger audience... and you can't just hope to have a younger audience, you have…

— Diane Paulus

You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because…

— 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,…

— Diane Paulus

I want an audience that will come sitting forward in their seats.

— Diane Paulus

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

— Diane Paulus

I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually…

— Diane Paulus

I knew ART was was going to give me this opportunity to expand my role as a director and finally let me…

— Diane Paulus

I'm always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and…

— Diane Paulus

I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry…

— Diane Paulus

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at…

— Diane Paulus

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

— Diane Paulus

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which…

— Diane Paulus

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

— Diane Paulus

Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches.

— Diane Paulus

The mission of the A.R.T. is to expand the boundaries of theater through works of the canon and the new works of…

— 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…

— 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

Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me…

— 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…

— Diane Paulus