Julie Taymor quotes - page 2

We always write stories of tragedies because that's how we reach our human depth. How we get to the other side of it. (Julie Taymor)
I put myself into situations where I'm forced to do something, to create, to respond, to see differently. View quote
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It allows human beings to step out of their lives and to revisit it and maybe find something different about it. View quote
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Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power ... but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! View quote
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In our culture, we think that happy and color is trivial, that black and darkness is deeper. View quote
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We have a ways to go in understanding the power of puppetry. View quote
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I read a lot of books that are, for lack of a better word, cross-cultural. View quote
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Joy is deeper than sorrow, for all joy seeks eternity. View quote
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I really, really love to have people honestly be moved and inspired. View quote
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Why do we think that arts are leisure? Why isn't it arts and science or arts and the most important thing in your life? View quote
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I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. (Julie Taymor)
We are able to be incredibly creative or to be incredibly destructive. We have that decision to make, to create something. It could be grotesque and ugly, but it is monstrously beautiful, so it inspires people. View quote
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I knew it would be a challenge, but I saw the inherent theatricality in it, and I couldn't resist. View quote
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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. ... A lot of what I do in theater is cinematic, and a lot of what I do in film is theatrical, but there are different rules to it. View quote
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I'm a director and I paint many other people... Other people's realities. But I do have to invest in it. View quote
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She painted what she painted because she had to, because she was passionate about it. View quote
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The first thing I do when I'm creating, either for stage or for cinema, is to find the ideograph of the story. View quote
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I find that I make as an artist the kind of choices that I have to be impassioned about. View quote
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The artist has the possibility to create a much larger landscape with puppetry. The human becomes more human in that sense. View quote
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I can't design a mask and say to someone else, "Just do it." View quote
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What I don't have in theater is editing. (Julie Taymor)
It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous. View quote
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People will justify whatever for a good cause. View quote
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I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus. View quote
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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. View quote
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