Julie Taymor
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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
point relevant
In today's world, it's more relevant than ever. It's about how do we look at the world from the outsider's point of view, from the monster's point of view.
film abstract theater
Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
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.
darkness who-we-are forget
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.
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.
editing theater
What I don't have in theater is editing.
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.
american-director potent
We feel that Grendel is very, very potent as to where we are today, which may not be any different than where we were in the 10th Century.