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I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.
Julie Taymor
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Julie Taymor
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: December 15
Costume Designer
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Film Director
Film Producer
Opera Director
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Theatrical Director
Newton
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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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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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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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I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.
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People will justify whatever for a good cause.
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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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Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.
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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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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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I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.
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