Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

“If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'”

— 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

“A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“I eat all the time, and I run all the time.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

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

— 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

“I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.”

— 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

“I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

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

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'd love to make a thriller.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“It was so amazing to fall crazily in love and get married and have kids.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“My mum told me once I was a Hindu.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Tea is a huge part of my life.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“There's definitely something transformative about clothes.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

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

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“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.”

— 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

“It's difficult for me to work with women, because I find that direct references are made back to me too fast. Working with men, it gives it a little distance.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.

— 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

“Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, 'Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done.'”

— 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

“When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.”

— Sam Taylor-Johnson