Top 137 Quotes & Sayings by Sam Taylor-Johnson - Page 3

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

Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, 'Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done.'

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

It's difficult for me to work with women, because I find that direct references are made back to me too fast. Working with men, it gives it a little distance.

It was so amazing to fall crazily in love and get married and have kids.

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.

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

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

The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.

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

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.

Snobbery just inhibits you.

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

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

Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.

My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.

I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.