“Everything amounts to nothing if you don't love someone or something.” IfsAmountLove Someone Author: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 whatever happens will be interesting and will challenge and excite me.” KnowsMindHappensNextChallengesInterestingWhatever Happens Author:Julie Taymor
“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.” InspirationalYearsFunnyNextStudentsCollegeParticularTravelGraduatesGraduationFunny TravelIndonesiaCollege StudentsMyopic Author:Julie Taymor
“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.” ThinkingDoeSaidRealityKingsTheaterAbstractLionsLiteralLion King Author:Julie Taymor
“There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.” ArtInfluenceInspireIncrediblesKeep Moving Forward Author:Julie Taymor
“Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.” FilmTheaterSuperiorsAbstract Author:Julie Taymor
“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.” WritingFilmActorsDesignDirectTheatreSingersDancerMakersPuppetsPuppeteer Author:Julie Taymor
“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.” KnowsWantImportantArtistForceEssenceImportant ThingsWhat You WantLimitation Author:Julie Taymor
“I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.” IfsBelieveChallengesInterestingFailingRiskBelieve In YourselfChallenge Yourself Author:Julie Taymor
“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.” PeopleWayNeedsTwoFilmThreeActorsProcessHoursGonePerformancesTheaterRehearsalGood Actors Author:Julie Taymor
“It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.” PeopleDangerousRepressed Author:Julie Taymor
“I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.” WayUseFilmStageTechniqueTheatricalCinematic Author:Julie Taymor
“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.” ArtImportantFormProcessCreativeProductsCreatingAspectExperienceIncrediblesJapan Author:Julie Taymor
“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.” IfsFeelsYearsMeanI CanTwoSelfFilmMy OwnFourTwo YearsFour YearsOperaNasty Author:Julie Taymor
“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.” PeopleTwoFilmAskingBillionsPsychologicalOrganized Author:Julie Taymor
“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.” ThinkingMenViolenceWrittenModernShameViolentMovieExploitationThoroughViolent Man Author:Julie Taymor
“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.” ArtStoriesTogetherEnjoyRelationshipHappeningsBoundsWorking TogetherOur RelationshipOutcast Author:Julie Taymor
