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 enric…

- Diane Paulus

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.

- Diane Paulus

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 a…

- Diane Paulus

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe,…

- Diane Paulus

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

- Diane Paulus

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

- Diane Paulus

The idea of making audiences feel like they matter, that the theatre matters, and that they're a partner in the event—that's what fuels me as a direc…

- Diane Paulus

I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We've done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to b…

- Diane Paulus

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…

- Diane Paulus