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I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved.
Julie Taymor
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Julie Taymor
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: December 15
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My God, it transformed me. My life changed.
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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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I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.
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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
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In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people to appreciate.
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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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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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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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What I adore is the juxtaposition of high tech and low tech. It's sort of like I love the sacred and the profane. I love to put these extremes in the same hopper.
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What I don't have in theater is editing.
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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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