You program music with an image and then people are desensitized. Julie Taymor desensitizeimagemusic Change image and share on social
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 beowulfbringcontemporary share on social
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 americancollegegraduation share on social
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 backcoliseumfake Change image and share on social
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 hamletintroducejuliet Change image and share on social
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 artaspectcreate share on social
There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence. Julie Taymor artincredibleinfluence Change image and share on social
I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories. Julie Taymor herohonestsick Change image and share on social
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 deepexploitationman share on social
