Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

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

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• The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Economics

• I am a Buddhist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Buddhist

• I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Hilarious

• Expenditures rise to meet income.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Meet
  • Rise
  • Income

• What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Important
  • Best

• Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Game
  • Energy
  • Best

• You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

  

  G-Eazy
  • You
  • Cool
  • Ability

• Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Fool

• There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

  

  Han Suyin
  • World
  • inspirational

• Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Friends
  • House
  • Dad

• For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

  

  Randy West
  • Feeling
  • Powerful
  • Audience

• Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Way
  • Education
  • Justice

• I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Best

• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Loss

• I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Writing
  • Lucky
  • Very

• Soon she’ll start yelling, I thought, soon she’ll hit her, trying to break that bond. Instead, the bond will become more twisted, will strengthen in remorse, in the humiliation of having shown herself in public to be an unaffectionate mother, not the mother of church or the Sunday supplements.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Mother
  • Church
  • Humiliation

• It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Me
  • Always
  • Literature

• It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Film
  • Hard
  • Made

• There's going to be no more digital enhancements or digital additions to anything based on any film I direct. I'm not going to do any corrections digitally to even wires that show... If 1941 comes on Blu-ray I'm not going to go back and take the wires out because the Blu-ray will bring the wires out that are guiding the airplane down Hollywood Blvd. At this point right now I think letting movies exist in the era, with all the flaws and all of the flourishes, is a wonderful way to mark time and mark history.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Film
  • Digital enhancements
  • Digital additions

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

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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  • Film
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