Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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I'm not a shouter, and I'm not a bully.
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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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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 think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.
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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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It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
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My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
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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 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 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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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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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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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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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.
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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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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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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.
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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 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.