Julie Taymor Quotes - Page 3

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• I don't want to sound like a heroic woman or to seem full of myself, but I do have a core of trust that I'll figure things out and find my way. And if whatever I try is not a good experience, even that is a good experience. If something turns out lousy, it's interesting.

  Julie Taymor

  Interesting, Trying, Want

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• When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

  Julie Taymor

  Art, Growing Up, School

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• 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

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• My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to be raised differently than my brother and sister were. My parents went through the whole sixties rebellion with my brother and sister. But I didn't feel like I had to rebel because I didn't have anyone telling me I couldn't do something. I never went into that parents-as-enemies stage.

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  Mother, Brother, Father

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• Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

  Julie Taymor

  Children, Adults, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

  Julie Taymor

  Responsibility, Ideas, Directors

  Source: www.oprah.com

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

  Julie Taymor

  Emotional, Thinking, Landscape

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Americans are attracted to the dark side. But which movies should be allowed to be violent and show that dark side, and which should not? I don't believe in censorship, but I do think there are horrible movies that are bad for you.

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  Believe, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I believe that if you really have a strong idea, you can say, "What do you think? Let's see how my idea plays off yours."

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  Strong, Believe, Thinking

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

  Julie Taymor

  People, Program

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• 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

  "KA-POW! Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" by Adam Green, www.vogue.com. November 12, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Stories

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• 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.

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  Two, People, Asking

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• I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

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  Character, Guy, Males

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• What I don't have in theater is editing.

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  Editing, Theater

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• 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.

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  Art, School, Eras

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• 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.

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  Movie, Men, Thinking

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

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  Hero, Sick, Stories

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• 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.

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  Relationship, Art, Working Together

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• People will justify whatever for a good cause.

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  People, Causes, Justify

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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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  People, Able, Problem

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