Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Profession : Director

Birth : March 4, 1967

My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

You have to be brave when you've got a kid.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have the sort of mind that I do.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

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.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think I just love films where men have complete breakdowns.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.

Sam Taylor-Johnson