61 Quotes by Julie Taymor

What I adore is the juxtaposition of high tech and low tech. It's sort of like I love the sacred and the profane. I love to put these extremes in the same hopper.

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

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.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

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.

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.

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

I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.