Julie Taymor Quotes & Sayings

“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.”