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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.
Julie Taymor
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Julie Taymor
Age: 71
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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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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What I don't have in theater is editing.
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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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People will justify whatever for a good cause.
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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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Americans are attracted to the dark side. But which movies should be allowed to be violent and show that dark side, and which should not? I don't believe in censorship, but I do think there are horrible movies that are bad for you.
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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
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There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.
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We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.
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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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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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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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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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I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.
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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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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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