I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble. Julie Taymor More Quotes by Julie Taymor More Quotes From Julie Taymor My God, it transformed me. My life changed. Julie Taymor transformed life-changing changed 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. Julie Taymor self mean years 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. Julie Taymor fake real doe And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story. Julie Taymor stories people thinking People will justify whatever for a good cause. Julie Taymor justify causes people It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous. Julie Taymor repressed dangerous people I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys. Julie Taymor males guy character What I don't have in theater is editing. Julie Taymor theater editing It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from a different perspective. They let us look at birds in a way that makes us never see birds again in the same way. That's why I don't think computers are healthy for kids. They're too literal. You pop a button and a bluebird comes out. You pop another button and you can take the color blue and shove it into the outline of the bluebird. Julie Taymor artist kids thinking Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power, but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! - he can fly through the theater at 40 miles an hour. It's got villains, it's got skyscrapers, it's colorful, it's Manhattan. I knew it would be a challenge, but I saw the inherent theatricality in it, and I couldn't resist. Julie Taymor superhero dark men You program music with an image and then people are desensitized. Julie Taymor program people You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts. Julie Taymor eras art school I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus. Julie Taymor able problem people 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. Julie Taymor working-together relationship art Directing is much more psychological-it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between two and 500 people asking you a billion questions. Julie Taymor asking two people When I'm sculpting, I work with wood and clay, and though some say that an image is already in the material and the sculptor just has to discover it, I also believe you have an image in your head that you're trying to get to. So you're in a dialogue with the piece, a back-and-forth. Julie Taymor clay trying believe I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories. Julie Taymor sick hero stories 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. Julie Taymor movie men thinking Some of my ideas for film or theater come to me in dreams. I'm also very creative when I'm talking to others. I believe in collaboration. Julie Taymor dream talking believe 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 challenges mind interesting
