We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other’s art.

Taymor links two recurring features of her career: an artistic fascination with outsiders and a long-running creative partnership. The “outcast” functions both as subject matter—stories centered on marginal figures—and as a creative stance, privileging the unconventional and the visually/theatrically daring. She suggests that repeated collaboration is not merely professional convenience but an engine of artistic identity: the relationship “kept happening” because shared taste and mutual admiration reinforced it. By saying their relationship is “bound up with our work,” she frames collaboration as a form of intimacy, where each person’s art becomes the medium through which they know and sustain one another.