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My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

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Julie Taymor
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: December 15
Costume Designer
Director
Film Director
Film Producer
Opera Director
Scenographer
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
Newton
Massachusetts
Life
Transformed
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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.
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An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.
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When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. Directing is much more psychological - it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.
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You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.
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Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.
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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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What I don't have in theater is editing.
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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 call myself a playmaker sometimes - but that's just a word. I don't feel like I have to have a title or a job description.
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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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Growing up I had amazing parents who really let me be creative and free. I was the youngest of three by six years, the child who was the outsider and observer. When I went off to Boston to act, I was very young - 10. And my parents didn't fear that. They had the respect to let me make my choices.
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There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.
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I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.
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I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.
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I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.
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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
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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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I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.
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I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.
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