“I'm sorry, but to ask an audience these days to invest three hours in ...” — Diane Paulus Quote

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.

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

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.

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

I want an audience that will come sitting forward in their seats.

I am not a heroine, I am an actor, and that's why I don't think there is any expiry to me.

For me, saying 'I love you' is the same as unbuttoning the heroine's kurti.

I never think of myself as a heroine.

Sonam is in her own world, and she's done all kinds of films. But I also think it's easier sometimes for a heroine to fit in a lot of films.

I love that Moana is a heroine, and I hope people take that away, and that you most certainly can be the heroine, or hero, of your own story.