There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.
From 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.
I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.
I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.
It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.
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.
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.
People will justify whatever for a good cause.
You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.
I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.
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