Julie Taymor Quotes & Sayings
21 most famous Julie Taymor quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She's a 72 year old American director born on Dec 20, 1952.
“I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.”
“There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.”
“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.”
“People will justify whatever for a good cause.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.”
“I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.”
“I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.”
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