Julie Taymor Quotes - Page 2

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

  Julie Taymor

  People, Dangerous, Repressed

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• Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.

  Julie Taymor

  Children, Play, People

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• When I'm sculpting, I work with wood and clay, and though some say that an image is already in the material and the sculptor just has to discover it, I also believe you have an image in your head that you're trying to get to. So you're in a dialogue with the piece, a back-and-forth.

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  Believe, Trying, Clay

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• I know I'm missing something, but those who have children are missing what I get to do. And frankly, I'm probably missing more of what I don't want than what I do. Some may call me selfish or narcissistic, but I don't want to spend my time going to PTA meetings. The only way I could have children and do the work I do is to have a househusband - and I'm not attracted to a househusband. I'd rather affect children with the work I do.

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  Children, Selfish, Missing

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• People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

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  Reality, People, Television

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• My aesthetic is not a Disney aesthetic at all, but when I met with the wonderful producers at Disney, they weren't looking for me to do their aesthetic. I'd already spent 20 years in the theater, so if they were going to hire me, they'd be hiring me for what I have to offer.

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  Years, Wonderful, Theater

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• You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.

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  Art, Years, Play

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• Learning is about much more than science and math. Doing theater, music, and art in school really helps children's minds grow because they're using different parts of their brains. Parents who care should insist on that.

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  Art, Children, School

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• You have to stop yourself from even thinking about failing.

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  Thinking, Failing

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• Everything amounts to nothing if you don't love someone or something.

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  Love Someone, Amount, Ifs

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• We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.

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  Culture, Stories, Problem

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• One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.

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  Artist, Play, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

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  Two, People, Three

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• 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.

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  Interesting, Challenges, Mind

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• 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.

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  Dream, Believe, Talking

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• My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

  Julie Taymor

  Life Changing, Changed, Transformed

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

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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.

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  Real, Fake, Doe

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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.

  Julie Taymor

  Mean, Self, Years

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

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

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  Play, Ideas, People

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• What I adore is the juxtaposition of high tech and low tech. It's sort of like I love the sacred and the profane. I love to put these extremes in the same hopper.

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  Sacred, Juxtaposition, Lows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

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  Art, Growing Up, School

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Interesting, Trying, Want

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