Julie Taymor quotes - page 3

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)
You program music with an image and then people are desensitized. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 mean it has to be about myself. View quote
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I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories. View quote
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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 to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it. View quote
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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. View quote
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We have a ways to go in understanding the power of puppetry ... Our problem is for too long we have thought of puppets being for children. ... The appeal of puppetry to me is it's much more freeing for an artist ... Puppetry is a completely controllable means to attack your characters in every possible way. The artist has the possibility to create a much larger landscape with puppetry. The human becomes more human in that sense. Another of the great things about puppetry is the ability to transform. View quote
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I understood really the power of art to transform. I think transformation became the main word in my life. Transformation because you don't want to just put a mirror in front of people and say, here, look at yourself. What do you see? You want to have a skewed mirror. You want a mirror that says you didn't know you could see the back of your head. You didn't know that you could amount cubistic see almost all the same aspects at the same time. It allows human beings to step out of their lives and to revisit it and maybe find something different about it. (Julie Taymor)
I read a lot of books that are, for lack of a better word, cross-cultural. I find movies and books that take me - transport me to another culture are the things that I'm most interested in, and always have been. View quote
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We can either be monsters or angels. We are able to be demons and angels, as that book says. We are able to be incredibly creative or to be incredibly destructive. We have that decision to make, to create something. It could be grotesque and ugly, but it is monstrously beautiful, so it inspires people. View quote
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The concrete world isn't necessarily the most powerful world. The world of the mind - whether you're watching Matrix or whatever - the world that's inside here has the power to do a lot of good and a lot of damage. View quote
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I love it when people say "What a horrible, lousy idea." I think that's great ... I hate the comfort zone ... I don't think that anything that's really creative can be done without danger and risk. View quote
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