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
When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
love scar shaped showing
I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
time
I eat all the time, and I run all the time.
I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.
I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
reads tarot
My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
addicted creating emotions excited fantastic favorite utterly
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.
bearing believe life move time wasted
I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
manifest
If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
autonomous bit
It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
beneath fertile interested life line lived lives people present private public quite taking work
The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
constantly hard sit
I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
coppola goes scorsese work
When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
georgia hard quite trying undo
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.