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
people able problem
I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.
art school eras
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.
editing theater
What I don't have in theater is editing.
emotional thinking opera
I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.
two people three
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.
real fake doe
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.
use way technique
I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.
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.
believe interesting challenges
I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.
kings reality thinking
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.
film abstract theater
Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
song joy speak
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.
art inspire influence
There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.
writing design dancer
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.