Julie Taymor famous quotes

03-24-2025

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

#College #Years #Next
There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.
-- Julie Taymor

#Art #Inspire #Influence
Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
-- Julie Taymor

#Film #Abstract #Theater
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

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

#Believe #Interesting #Challenges
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 two and 500 people asking you a billion questions.
-- Julie Taymor

#Two #People #Asking
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

#Movie #Men #Thinking
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

#Relationship #Art #Working Together
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

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

#People #Able #Problem
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

#Real #Fake #Doe
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

#Art #School #Eras
You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.
-- Julie Taymor

#People #Program
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

#Mean #Self #Years
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 #Japan #Creating
I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.
-- Julie Taymor

#Technique #Use #Way
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

#Kings #Reality #Thinking
My God, it transformed me. My life changed.
-- Julie Taymor

#Life Changing #Changed
People will justify whatever for a good cause.
-- Julie Taymor

#People #Causes #Justify
What I don't have in theater is editing.
-- Julie Taymor

#Editing #Theater
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 dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.
-- Julie Taymor

#Writing #Design #Dancer
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.
-- Julie Taymor

#Artist #Essence #Important
I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.
-- Julie Taymor

#Hero #Sick #Stories
It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.
-- Julie Taymor

#People #Dangerous
Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power ... but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! - he can fly through the theater at 40 miles an hour. It's got villains, it's got skyscrapers, it's colorful, it's Manhattan. I knew it would be a challenge, but I saw the inherent theatricality in it, and I couldn't resist.
-- Julie Taymor

#Dark #Men #Superhero

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