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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."

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"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."

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"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."

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A.E. Samaan

"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."

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A.E. Samaan

"We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry."

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A.E. Samaan

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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A.E. Samaan

"To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another."

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A.E. Samaan

"I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera."

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A.E. Samaan

"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."

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"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."

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A.E. Samaan

"I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos."

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A.E. Samaan

"Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back."

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

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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."

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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."

Love

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

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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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Julie Taymor
"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."

People

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Julie Taymor
"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."

Art

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

People

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Julie Taymor
"Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry."

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Julie Taymor
"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."

Writing

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