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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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.
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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.
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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'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 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 woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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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.
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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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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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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
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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.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.