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21 quotes by Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theatre, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song. She also received the 2012 Director Award for Vision and Courage from the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College in New York...
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I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

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There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

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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 and not to do literal... →

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People will justify whatever for a good cause.

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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... →

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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... →

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I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

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I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

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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.

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

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What I don't have in theater is editing.

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You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.

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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 own self into it. That doesn't... →

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