People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

- Julie Taymor

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

- Julie Taymor

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 sing…

- Julie Taymor

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 …

- Julie Taymor

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

- 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…

- Julie Taymor

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 tormen…

- Julie Taymor

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

- Julie Taymor

Creativity is a gift, but if you don't know how to use it you might not even know it's there. There's a lot of creativity in the air, but it's meanin…

- Julie Taymor