Julie Taymor Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

  Julie Taymor

  Film, Abstract, Theater

  "Transforming the World through Art". Academy of Achievement Interview, June 3, 2006.

• 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

• 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

• 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

  "Bill Moyers Interviews Julie Taymor". "NOW on PBS" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2002.

• 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

• I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.

  Julie Taymor

  Actors, Film, Fantastic

  Source: collider.com

• When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. 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 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

  Julie Taymor

  Ideas, People, Trying

• 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

  "Theatre Director Probes Humanism". Christopher Reardon, The Christian Science Monitor, November 13, 1992.

• Some of my ideas for film or theater come to me in dreams. I'm also very creative when I'm talking to others. I believe in collaboration.

  Julie Taymor

  Dream, Believe, Talking

• I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

  Julie Taymor

  Play, Ideas, People

• 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

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