Top 35 Quotes by Diane Paulus

About Diane Paulus

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Look at where I lived! Four blocks from Lincoln Center. I used to play in the fountain. And then I started taking dance lessons. I was in 'The Nutcracker' for the N.Y. City Ballet when I was 8 and dancing in 'The Firebird' for George Balanchine when I was 9. Believe me, that's something you don't ever forget.

Diane Paulus

I think actually what keeps the intensity manageable - it's a little counterintuitive - is that it's changing all the time. Every week is different for me.

I think actually what keeps the intensity manageable - it's a little counterintuitive - is that it's changing all the time. Every week is different for me.

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

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