Diane Paulus Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

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

“I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.”

“I'm sorry, but to ask an audience these days to invest three hours in a show requires your heroine be an understandable and fully rounded character.”

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

“I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you.”

“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.”

“We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.”

“You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because it's good for them, because it's the vegetables that they should eat and the culture shot that they should get... It's about experience and building community and catalyzing dialogue and bringing people together.”