Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymoris 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 December 1952
CityNewton, MA
CountryUnited States of America
american-director epic fresh john poem took
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.
reflection rocks order
I saw bubbling lava, and at the same moment I saw a reflection of a certain kind of inner turmoil. Because at the moment I looked into that crater, I slipped, and a large piece of volcanic rock took a hole out of my leg. The scar is still there 20, 30 years later. But it's one of those things that reminds you of the kind of risk or the kind of moment in order to push yourself.
sacred juxtaposition lows
What I adore is the juxtaposition of high tech and low tech. It's sort of like I love the sacred and the profane. I love to put these extremes in the same hopper.
emotional thinking opera
I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.
editing theater
What I don't have in theater is editing.
life-changing changed transformed
My God, it transformed me. My life changed.
art japan creating
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.
actors film fantastic
I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.
mean years two
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.
two people asking
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.
movie men thinking
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.