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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
Julie Taymor
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Julie Taymor
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: December 15
Costume Designer
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Film Director
Film Producer
Opera Director
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Theatrical Director
Newton
Massachusetts
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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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When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.
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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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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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A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.
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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.
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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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That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.
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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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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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I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.
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You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.
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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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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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My God, it transformed me. My life changed.
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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.
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