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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.
Julie Taymor
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Julie Taymor
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: December 15
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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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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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My God, it transformed me. My life changed.
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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 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.
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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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You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.
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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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But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.
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I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.
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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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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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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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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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I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.
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What I don't have in theater is editing.
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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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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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I am creative in my living space - the designer in me helps that out.
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