Top 35 Quotes by Diane Paulus

About Diane Paulus

These are some quotes by American author Diane Paulus Director, who was born in 1966.

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

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 to program things that audience is going to connect with.

I think every theater in America wants a younger audience... and you can't just hope to have a younger audience, you have to program things that audience is going to connect with.

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 about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping.

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 about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping.

Diane Paulus

I'm 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.

I'm 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

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

Diane Paulus

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

Diane Paulus

I give so much of myself to my work; I want to be with people who are going to be there with me.

I give so much of myself to my work; I want to be with people who are going to be there with me.

Diane Paulus

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.

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.

Diane Paulus

I really challenge every actor at the beginning of a process, and I always say, 'I have an idea that I'm going to bring to the table. I hope and expect that you will have an idea and bring it to the table. But the way I really want to work is that together we're going to have a third idea that is better than either of our ideas.'

Diane Paulus

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

Diane Paulus

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