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Quotes from Bill Moyers interview — Julie Taymor

born 1952 United States

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8 quotes

She painted what she painted because she had to, because she was passionate about it.

Bill Moyers interview (2002)

It allows human beings to step out of their lives and to revisit it and maybe find something different about it.

Bill Moyers interview (2002)

I find that I make as an artist the kind of choices that I have to be impassioned about.

Bill Moyers interview (2002)

We always write stories of tragedies because that's how we reach our human depth. How we get to the other side of it.

Bill Moyers interview (2002)

Why do we think that arts are leisure? Why isn't it arts and science or arts and the most important thing in your life?

Bill Moyers interview (2002)

I understood really the power of art to transform. I think transformation became the main word in my life.

Bill Moyers interview (2002)

You can do things that would bring people to another place and still get someone on a very daily mundane moving level but you don't have to separate art from the masses.

Bill Moyers interview (2002)

I'm a director and I paint many other people... Other people's realities. But I do have to invest in it.

Bill Moyers interview (2002)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Julie Taymor (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.