Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Profession : Director

Birth : March 4, 1967

My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.

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I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

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I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

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I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

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I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

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.

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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

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I'm good at keeping secrets.

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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'

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Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

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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.

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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.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

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