Julie Taymor Quotes

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

Nature, Movies, Deep

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

Travel, Graduation, Off

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

Story, Unknown, Thrilling

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.
Julie Taymor

Hero, Sick, Honest

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

Good, Through, Two

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.
Julie Taymor

Words, Understand, Problem

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.
Julie Taymor

Yourself, Challenge, Risk

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

Art, Respect, Experience

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.
Julie Taymor

Film, Stage, Theatrical

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

Self, Mean, Two

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.
Julie Taymor

Cannot, Dangerous, Express

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

Love, Fake, Real

People will justify whatever for a good cause.
Julie Taymor

Good, Whatever, Cause

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
Julie Taymor

Poetry, Far, Film

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.
Julie Taymor

Power, Influence, Arts

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

Work, Art, Together

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

Today, Together, Old

What I don't have in theater is editing.
Julie Taymor

Theater, Editing

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

Best, Reality, Thinking

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.
Julie Taymor

Time, School, Study

You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.
Julie Taymor

Music, Image, Program

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Nationality: American

Born: December 15, 1952

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