Tag Archives: Julie Taymor

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way. Julie Taymor

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. Julie Taymor

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

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories. Julie Taymor

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. Julie Taymor

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence. Julie Taymor

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

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. Julie Taymor

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. Julie Taymor

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus. Julie Taymor