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Julie Taymor Quotes

Julie Taymor quotes

American Director December 15, 1952

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We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art. Julie Taymor
One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it. Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor quote: "There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence."
There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence. Julie Taymor
Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia. Julie Taymor
But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame. Julie Taymor
When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality. Julie Taymor
I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself. Julie Taymor
I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form. Julie Taymor
I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films. Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor quote: "People will justify whatever for a good cause."
People will justify whatever for a good cause. Julie Taymor
We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now. Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor quote: "You program music with an image and then people are desensitized."
You program music with an image and then people are desensitized. Julie Taymor
And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story. Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor quote: "I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and..."
I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting. Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor quote: "I have never had a problem with people not being able to..."
I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus. Julie Taymor

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