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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

Topics: About Awe Bigger Cathedral Definition Edge Feeling Go Going Larger Look Lost Me Ocean Oneself People Reason Something Spectacle Than Themselves Why

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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

Topics: Actually Everything Intuitively Know Liberating Listen Music Pretty Read Scripts Understand Unlock Very Way You I Can

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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

Topics: Epiphany Grassroots Had Happen Interaction Level Like Make People Things Things Happen Wanted

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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

Topics: Athens Audience Center Civic Classical Culture Different Elizabethan Engagement England Politics Religion Society Theater Things Those

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I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

~Diane Paulus

Topics: Beautiful Gold Grew Harp Living Living Room Older Older Sister Our Played Room Sister Sitting Up

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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

Topics: Boundaries Canon Expand Mission New Theater Through Tomorrow Works

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It's freeing to not be caught up in your own personal baggage.

~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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As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

~Diane Paulus

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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

Topics: Actor Always Beginning Better Bring Challenge Either Every Expect Going Hope Idea Ideas Our Process Really Say Table Than Third Together Want Way Will Work You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: Unknown

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