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Julie Taymor Biography

Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. She is best known for directing the stage musical The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design.

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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.

Art, Completely, Loved, Relationship, Story, Working Together

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.

Art, Patronize, Play, Theatergoers, Years

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

Art, Arts, Incredible, Inspire, Keep Moving Forward

People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

Literal, People, Reality, Television

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.

Coliseum, Doe, Fake, Jump, Mediums, Real

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

Hero, Honest, Sick, Stories

We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the darkness of our lives, and they put us into a place where you understand what it is to be human.

Darkness, Forget, Myths, Place, Tell, Who We Are

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

Emotional, Inner, Landscape, Musicals, Opera, Thinking

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

Back, Fear, Hold, Ifs, Throw, Window

In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people to appreciate.

Appreciate, Artist, Channel, People, Shamans

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

Changed, God, Life, Life Changing, Transformed

What I don't know for sure is what's next for me - and I don't mind that. I know for sure that whatever happens will be interesting and will challenge and excite me.

Challenge, Challenges, Excite, Interesting, Mind

When I'm sculpting, I work with wood and clay, and though some say that an image is already in the material and the sculptor just has to discover it, I also believe you have an image in your head that you're trying to get to. So you're in a dialogue with the piece, a back-and-forth.

Believe, Clay, Say, Trying, Work

I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved.

Arguing, Bumps, Levels, Movie, Play

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.

Kings, Lion, Reality, Said, Theater, Thinking

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.

Films, Hours, People, Three, Two, Way

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

Being Positive, Negative, Policy, Receptivity, Fears

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

Four, Indonesia, Magic, Trance, Years

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.

Art, Eras, Grades, Oberlin, Practiced, School

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

Ability, Ideas, Let, People, Play, Poetry

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