48 Quotes by Diane Paulus

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

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

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.

Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches.

I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.

I give so much of myself to my work; I want to be with people who are going to be there with me.

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

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.