61 Quotes by Julie Taymor

We feel that Grendel is very, very potent as to where we are today, which may not be any different than where we were in the 10th Century.

I have had a lot of experience directing actors so although this is my first feature film, it's certainly not my first time directing with big stars.

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.

There's never been a woman that won it, so we don't know, there may never be. But there have not been that many women on Broadway directing, period.

After I had received the Watson Fellowship and had been two years in Indonesia on this traveling fellowship, I stayed to start my own theater company.

This is not to make it easier, it's just to entice people to come.

I had spent a lot of my life in other cultures. I spent four years in Indonesia. I traveled through Japan. ... I have seen theater practiced in these ways before: mask theater, puppet theater.

In today's world, it's more relevant than ever. It's about how do we look at the world from the outsider's point of view, from the monster's point of view.

I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.