But it's very important to the story, the humor. But it's black humor. The script is her adaptation of the Shakespeare play. You know, Shakespeare just lends itself to movies, because it's so expansive, his stories. In a presentation to the National Council on the Arts, she said the limitations of the theater, the lack of merely realistic effects, are creatively stimulating.
Imagination is much better than reality.
You call upon all the various images you have gathered. I've never been to Africa, but when I think of it, I think of the National Geographics I've read and the movies, TV shows and animals I've seen. Then I add my understanding of grass and air that I felt as a child on Martha's Vineyard. No, because you might as well go to Africa and shoot the savannah. And Taymor has been critical of too much reliance on computers and other technology for stimulating creative ideas.