Going to the Far East was my first eye-opener to a world vastly different from my own. Then when I was 16 I lived in Paris for a year and studied mime. At 21 I went to Indonesia. I had… — 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
