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" I'm always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project. "
Diane Paulus
Good
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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. "
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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. "
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" I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I want an audience that will come sitting forward in their seats. "
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" My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience. "
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Looking
" 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. "
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Character
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" 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. "
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Looking
Way
Always
" As a director, I never feel that I have the answers. "
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Answers
Never
Feel
" I don't want to be in an art bubble. "
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Bubble
Want
" I give so much of myself to my work; I want to be with people who are going to be there with me. "
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People
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Going
" 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. "
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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. "
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Culture
Society
Religion
" 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. "
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Tomorrow
Point
Know
" 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. "
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Voice
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" When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there. "
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" Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches. "
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" The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater. "
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" 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. "
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Me
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" 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. "
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" It's freeing to not be caught up in your own personal baggage. "
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Caught
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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Technology
Art
" 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.' "
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