Sam Taylor
Sam Taylor
admit escape leading life obscure tried until
I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.
art london objects
I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!
moved
I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.
The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
manifest
If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.
Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.
When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
difficult direct gives men references women work
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.
art history people time
If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.