Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes
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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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I am not famous at all.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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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 don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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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 remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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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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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.
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Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
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Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.
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Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor.
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I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
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I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
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I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.