Diane Paulus Quotes

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

I can't imagine working without and audience.

Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

The creative process for me doesn't work as well without an image of an audience in mind.

I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.

As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.

Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it's an honor. It's just an honor to be a comedian.

I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know - every audience has its own personality.

I love cinema and creating new things, but essentially, I am creating all this because I want people to see it.

I was always interested in choreography - in making people think and feel something.

When I listen to a basic thought, I try to visualise the cinema in it. Sometimes it is dark, sometimes boyish, sometimes amateurish. It is a trial and error method. But the bottom line is that I want to entertain the audience.

I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was going to do the thing I most like to experience as an audience member, which is to be tricked.

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.