61 Quotes by Julie Taymor

One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you’re a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.

What I don’t have in theater is editing.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other’s art.

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

Directing is much more psychological-it’s a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you’re making a film, you have between two and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

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.

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