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Top 30 Julie Taymor Quotes (2025 Update)

Julie Taymor Quote: “My God, it transformed me. My life changed.”

1. “My God, it transformed me. My life changed.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.”

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

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “I really do believe that if you don’t challenge yourself and risk failing, that it’s not interesting.”

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

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Julie Taymor Quote: “I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.”

5. “I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.”

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

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.”

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

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “I’ve never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I’m really a theatre maker, but there’s not a word for that.”

11. “I’ve never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I’m really a theatre maker, but there’s not a word for that.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too – not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.”

12. “And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too – not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.”

14. “I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “I love directing Shakespeare on film. It’s fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.”

15. “I love directing Shakespeare on film. It’s fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Julie Taymor Quote: “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.”

18. “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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Julie Taymor Quote: “Americans in particular are myopic. They’re not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That’s what I did. I went to Indonesia.”

19. “Americans in particular are myopic. They’re not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That’s what I did. I went to Indonesia.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.”

20. “Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “People will justify whatever for a good cause.”

21. “People will justify whatever for a good cause.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.”

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

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Julie Taymor Quote: “I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.”

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

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.”

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

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “What I don’t have in theater is editing.”

26. “What I don’t have in theater is editing.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “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.”

27. “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

Julie Taymor Quote: “I’ve had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.”

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

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “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.”

29. “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.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “It’s people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.”

30. “It’s people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “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.”

31. “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

Julie Taymor Quote: “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.”

32. “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.”

— Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor Quote: “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.”

33. “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.”

— Julie Taymor

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