Julie Taymor

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

#hamlet #i #introduce #juliet #just

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

— Julie Taymor

#hero #honest #i #i am #quite

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

— Julie Taymor

#being #had #i #meanings #never

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#challenge #failing #i #interesting #really

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

— Julie Taymor

#film #i #stage #techniques #theatrical

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

#feel #film #four #going #i

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#dangerous #express #fears #people #repressed

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

#back #between #does #fake #film

People will justify whatever for a good cause. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#good #good cause #justify #people #whatever

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#far #film #poetry #superior #theater