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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: 72
Born: 1952
Born: December 15
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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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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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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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When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.
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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 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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I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.
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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 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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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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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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You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.
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