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I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.
Julie Taymor
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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
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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
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It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.
Julie Taymor
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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
Julie Taymor
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There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.
Julie Taymor
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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.
Julie Taymor
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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
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When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.
Julie Taymor
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You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.
Julie Taymor
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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.
Julie Taymor
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I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.
Julie Taymor
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