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Julie Taymor

"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."

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A.E. Samaan

"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

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"If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds."

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A.E. Samaan

"No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it."

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A.E. Samaan

"Nothing is ever free even a torn and worn underwear."

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A.E. Samaan

"They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication."

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A.E. Samaan

"The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive."

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A.E. Samaan

"Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny."

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A.E. Samaan

"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

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A.E. Samaan

"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."

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"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

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Julie Taymor
"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."

Reality

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Julie Taymor
"I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting."

Challenge

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Julie Taymor
"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."

Time

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Julie Taymor
"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."

Movies

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Julie Taymor
"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."

Film

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Julie Taymor
"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."

Film

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

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Julie Taymor
"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."

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Julie Taymor
"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."

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Julie Taymor
"There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence."

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