A biography for Sam Taylor-Johnsonhasn’t been written yet.
“I am not famous at all.”
“I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.”
“Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.”
“I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.”
“I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.”
“I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.”
“Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.”
“I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.”
“I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.”
“I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.”
“In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does.”
“I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.”
“I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.”
“In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.”
“I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.”
“I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.”
“I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what I do, but it's always what people seem to focus on.”
“There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.”
“At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.”
“When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.”