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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 be challenged, but who also won’t be falling asleep at the theater.

– Diane Paulus

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 voice and a role in experiencing theater.

– Diane Paulus

Diane Paulus

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

– Diane Paulus

Diane Paulus

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

Diane Paulus

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

– Diane Paulus

Diane Paulus

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

– Diane Paulus

Diane Paulus

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

– Diane Paulus

Diane Paulus

I think every theater in America wants a younger audience… and you can’t just hope to have a younger audience, you have to program things that audience is going to connect with.

– Diane Paulus

Diane Paulus

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

Diane Paulus

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

– Diane Paulus

Diane Paulus

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

Diane Paulus

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

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