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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?

— Julie Taymor Bill Moyers interview (2002)

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The first thing I do when I’m creating, either for stage or for cinema, is to find the ideograph of the story.

I can't design a mask and say to someone else, "Just do it."

I really, really love to have people honestly be moved and inspired.

Academy of Achievement interview (2006)

The artist has the possibility to create a much larger landscape with puppetry. The human becomes more human in that sense.

The concrete world isn't necessarily the most powerful world. The world of the mind … has the power to do a lot of good and a lot of damage.

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