Julie Taymor: Spider-Man, The Lion King and life on the creative edge

I start with the notion of the ideograph. An ideograph is like a brush painting, a Japanese brush painting.Three strokes, you get the whole bamboo forest. I go to the concept of "The Lion King" and I say, "What is the essence of it? What is the abstraction? If I were to reduce this entire story into one image, what would it be?"

work

"There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work…. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work."      

                                                     ~Brandon Stanton

(yep.)

all power to the polymath

Shirley Ellis