I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting. Julie Taymor More Quotes by Julie Taymor More Quotes From Julie Taymor When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that. Julie Taymor growing-up art school 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 children art school I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part. Julie Taymor fantastic film actors I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape. Julie Taymor landscape emotional thinking 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. Julie Taymor juxtaposition sacred lows I saw bubbling lava, and at the same moment I saw a reflection of a certain kind of inner turmoil. Because at the moment I looked into that crater, I slipped, and a large piece of volcanic rock took a hole out of my leg. The scar is still there 20, 30 years later. But it's one of those things that reminds you of the kind of risk or the kind of moment in order to push yourself. Julie Taymor rocks reflection order We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the darkness of our lives, and they put us into a place where you understand what it is to be human. Julie Taymor who-we-are darkness forget One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever. Julie Taymor able artist play Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way. Julie Taymor adults children way I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from. Julie Taymor magic four years We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now. Julie Taymor feel you together today
