Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

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 suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Live
  • Taken
  • Streets

• I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.

  

  Zendaya
  • Important
  • Think
  • Model

• Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Help
  • Sense
  • Bewildering

• I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Food

• My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Family
  • Decisions

• A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Career
  • You
  • Yourself

• One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Early

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Always
  • Sister
  • Very

• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

• There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Help
  • Innovation

• Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Science
  • Freedom
  • Progress

• Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Grandmother

• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • School
  • Choices

• Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Jungle
  • Border
  • Colombia

• I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Human
  • Conviction
  • Intellect

• I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • House

• Time was God's first creation.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • God
  • Creation

• And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Great
  • She
  • Beautiful

• Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

  

  Carl Schurz
  • Never
  • Sea
  • Stars

• But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts.

  

  Charlie Hunter

• It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.

  

  O. Henry
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Simple

• Glasses are not only functional but can be a great way to express yourself and to change your look. As frames around your eyes, glasses are perhaps one of the most important aspects of how you style yourself.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Great
  • Important
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Different
  • Me