Sam Taylor
Sam Taylor
cameraman endlessly helpless quite similar total trying work
My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
cancer colon felt followed grasp mastectomy
When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
opportunity hands two
I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.
body want moments
I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
artist psychosis two
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
want
I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
jobs cancer missions
I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
love-life thinking sometimes
I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.
distance thinking defining-moments
I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
kids house want
I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
cancer unfair
I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
childhood challenges determined
My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
black-and-white thinking people
I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.
cancer years lost
I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.