Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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I'm not a shouter, and I'm not a bully.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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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.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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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.
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A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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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.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
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My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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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.