Julie Taymor Quotes
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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…
American
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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
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My God, it transformed me. My life changed.
Changed
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People will justify whatever for a good cause.
Cause
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There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.
Art
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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
Abstract
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What I don't have in theater is editing.
Editing
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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 direct…
Actors
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Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an…
Artist
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I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.
Believe
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I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.
Hero
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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…
Actor
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It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.
Cannot Express
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I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.
Cinematic
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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…
All
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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…
Feel
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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, you have between…
Asking
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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…
All
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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…
Art
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And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the…
Hamlet
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