Sam Taylor-Johnson

My mum told me once I was a Hindu.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I am not famous at all.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

You have to be brave when you've got a kid.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

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

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

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

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Snobbery just inhibits you.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Tea is a huge part of my life.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

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

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.

— 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

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

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

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

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does.

— 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

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

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…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why…

— 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

The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'd love to make a thriller.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

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

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

There's definitely something transformative about clothes.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson