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Diane Paulus Quotes

American - Director | 1966 -

I want an audience that will come sitting forward in their seats.

Forward Want Sitting Will Audience

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

Art Want Bubble

Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical.

Change Music Doing You Play Rhythm

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

Beautiful Sister Gold Living Sitting

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

Parents Theatre Conquer Always Opera

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.

Dance City Me Believe You Look

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

Music Art Dance Singing Story Drama

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.

Time Me Think Week Little Changing

I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.

Tomorrow Week Know Class Point Even

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.

Time Moment Creative Me Present You

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 at its roots.

Art Roots Believe I Believe Elite

I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry to say, 'The audience has left the building. People don't want culture anymore.'

Culture People Blame Building Think

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