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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.
Julie Taymor
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Julie Taymor
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: December 15
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Creativity is a gift, but if you don't know how to use it you might not even know it's there. There's a lot of creativity in the air, but it's meaningless if you're not open to receiving it.
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There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.
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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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You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.
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I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.
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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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When I'm sculpting, I work with wood and clay, and though some say that an image is already in the material and the sculptor just has to discover it, I also believe you have an image in your head that you're trying to get to. So you're in a dialogue with the piece, a back-and-forth.
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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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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
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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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What I don't have in theater is editing.
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My God, it transformed me. My life changed.
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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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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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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'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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In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, Ugh.
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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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