Diane Paulus

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.' ”

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

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. ”

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

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