It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous. — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television. — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus. — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist,… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet,… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Directing is much more psychological-it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film,… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility. — Julie Taymor Copy Share
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… — Julie Taymor Copy Share
I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus. — Julie Taymor Copy Share
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… — Julie Taymor Copy Share
I call myself a playmaker sometimes - but that's just a word. I don't feel like I have to have a title or a… — Julie Taymor Copy Share
I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing… — Julie Taymor Copy Share
Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way. — Julie Taymor Copy Share
One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I… — Julie Taymor Copy Share
An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted. — Julie Taymor Copy Share
When we were kids, you picked up a little paper and put it on a stick; and when you waved it back and forth,… — Julie Taymor Copy Share
I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I… — Julie Taymor Copy Share
