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Diane Paulus
American
Director
Born:
1966
Art
Audience
Director
Me
People
You
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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
Me
People
Feeling
Edge
Ocean
Lost
Definition
About
Oneself
Something
Look
Cathedral
Go
Than
Mountaintop
Going
Bigger
Themselves
Reason
Why
Larger
Awe
Spectacle
As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.
Diane Paulus
Director
Never
Feel
Answers
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.
Diane Paulus
Beautiful
Sister
Older
Living
Our
Harp
Up
Sitting
Gold
Grew
Room
Older Sister
Living Room
Played
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.
Diane Paulus
Art
Technology
Humanity
Will
Sit
State
Civilization
Computer
Nobody
Anymore
Depraved
Games
When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.
Diane Paulus
Art
You
Director
Freelance
Kind
Hired
Stops
Create
I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.
Diane Paulus
People
Had
Like
Make
Interaction
Wanted
Happen
Epiphany
Grassroots
Level
Things
Things Happen
It's freeing to not be caught up in your own personal baggage.
Diane Paulus
Own
Baggage
Freeing
Caught
Up
Personal
Your
I really challenge every actor at the beginning of a process, and I always say, 'I have an idea that I'm going to bring to the table. I hope and expect that you will have an idea and bring it to the table. But the way I really want to work is that together we're going to have a third idea that is better than either of our ideas.'
Diane Paulus
Work
Hope
You
Together
Better
Challenge
Will
Beginning
Every
Our
Way
Say
Table
Idea
Ideas
Always
Expect
Than
Going
Want
Process
Either
Really
Actor
Bring
Third
I don't want to be in an art bubble.
Diane Paulus
Art
Bubble
Want
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
Me
You
Dance
Believe
Dancing
City
Something
Taking
Look
Ballet
Lincoln
George
Blocks
Forget
Where
Center
Then
Used
Lessons
Lived
Ever
Play
Fountain
Four
Started
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
Time
Me
You
Director
Creative
Sense
Meeting
About
Auditions
Stopping
Being
Whether
Much
Moment
Rehearsal
Present
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
Music
You
Everything
Unlock
Way
Liberating
Intuitively
Pretty
Know
Read
Understand
Very
Listen
Scripts
Actually
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.'
Diane Paulus
Blame
Culture
People
Building
Think
Our
Say
Tendency
Industry
Audience
Been
Left
Want
Anymore
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
History
Looking
Enriching
Our
Way
Our Lives
Animate
Make
Always
How
Historically
Theater
Interested
Us
Engage
Lives
Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches.
Diane Paulus
Politics
You
Degree
Trenches
Administration
About
Legislation
My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.
Diane Paulus
Director
Generation
My Generation
Fed
America
Going
Subsidized
Theater
Illusions
Cared
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 voice and a role in experiencing theater.
Diane Paulus
Giving
Down
Rather
Voice
Audience
Doing
Role
Experiencing
Theater
Mean
Belief
Core
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 be challenged, but who also won't be falling asleep at the theater.
Diane Paulus
Work
People
Drop
About
Had
Boulder
Also
Audiences
Falling
Wake
Up
Done
Want
Theater
Again
Asleep
Who
Now
Challenged
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