Julie Taymor Quotations

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

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

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.

Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power ... but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! - he can fly through the theater at 40 miles an hour. It's got villains, it's got skyscrapers, it's colorful, it's Manhattan. I knew it would be a challenge, but I saw the inherent theatricality in it, and I couldn't resist.

You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.

I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

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.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

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