Diane Paulus Quotes
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.
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.
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.
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.
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
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.
Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.
When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.
I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.
The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
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.
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.
