Julie Taymor

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play…

— Julie Taymor

What I don't know for sure is what's next for me - and I don't mind that. I know for sure that…

— Julie Taymor

You have to stop yourself from even thinking about failing.

— Julie Taymor

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

— Julie Taymor

Learning is about much more than science and math. Doing theater, music, and art in school really helps children's minds grow because…

— Julie Taymor

Everything amounts to nothing if you don't love someone or something.

— Julie Taymor

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

— Julie Taymor

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so…

— Julie Taymor

One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide…

— 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…

— Julie Taymor

Because my parents had given me tremendous respect, trust, and freedom as a child, I knew how to take responsibility for myself.…

— Julie Taymor

A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't…

— Julie Taymor

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

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all…

— Julie Taymor

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

— Julie Taymor

We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals…

— Julie Taymor

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your…

— Julie Taymor

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

— Julie Taymor

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

— Julie Taymor

Americans are attracted to the dark side. But which movies should be allowed to be violent and show that dark side, and…

— Julie Taymor

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to…

— Julie Taymor

Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power, but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! -…

— Julie Taymor

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

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

— Julie Taymor

Creativity is a gift, but if you don't know how to use it you might not even know it's there. There's a…

— Julie Taymor