Sam Taylor-Johnson

I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I am not famous at all.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'm not a shouter, and I'm not a bully.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

It's difficult for me to work with women, because I find that direct references are made back to me too fast. Working…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

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…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes,…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I eat all the time, and I run all the time.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson