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Julie Taymor Quotes: 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'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.


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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.



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.

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.



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I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.



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

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



There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.



When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.

When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.



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

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



What I don't have in theater is editing.

What I don't have in theater is editing.



An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.



Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.





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