American - Director | December 15, 1952 -
There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.
Julie Taymor
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It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.
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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.
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I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.
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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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I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.
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We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.
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People will justify whatever for a good cause.
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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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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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You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.
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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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