Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Samantha Louise "Sam" Taylor-Johnson OBEis an English filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. Her directorial feature film debut came in 2009 with Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of the Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon. She is one of a group of artists known as the Young British Artists...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth4 March 1967
check large life poignant thighs
I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
age love
If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!
artist creative hired knock
You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
diversity great lee
The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
camden job quickly running
A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.
feels younger
A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
directing hugely incredible intense shades thank universal
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.
I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
art artist became interest towards
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
opportunity
I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
good life met papers
I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
films love men
I think I just love films where men have complete breakdowns.
art saved
I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
seen
I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.