Top 35 Quotes by Diane Paulus

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.