Diane Paulus Quotes

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• Creativity is a form of knowledge.
• 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…
• 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 director, I never feel that I have the answers.
• I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.
• 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.
• My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.
• Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
• Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.
• 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…
• When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I give so much of myself to my work; I want to be with people who are going to be there with me.
• I want an audience that will come sitting forward in their seats.
• 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…
• The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
• The mission of the A.R.T. is to expand the boundaries of theater through works of the canon and the new works of tomorrow.
• I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.

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