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I knew ART was was going to give me this opportunity to expand my role as a director and finally let me have a seat at the table where I could get involved in these policy discussions and producing discussions and, frankly, the financial discussions.
- Diane Paulus
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As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.
- Diane Paulus
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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.
- Diane Paulus
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It's freeing to not be caught up in your own personal baggage.
- Diane Paulus
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I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.
- Diane Paulus
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The mission of the A.R.T. is to expand the boundaries of theater through works of the canon and the new works of tomorrow.
- Diane Paulus
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When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.
- Diane Paulus
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Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.
- Diane Paulus
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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.
- Diane Paulus
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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, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.
- Diane Paulus
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The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
- Diane Paulus
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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
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Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches.
- Diane Paulus
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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.
- Diane Paulus
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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
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#Religion
#Society
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
- Diane Paulus
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#Singing
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