Sam Taylor
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Sam Taylor
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I eat all the time, and I run all the time.
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.
appliances build colors custom room three
They can custom build a room and see how the room and the appliances look in different colors or in two or three dimensions.
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.
switch work
I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off.
astute clearest detail far work
Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.
interests journeys life particular
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.
advances balance despite equality far global great power statistics women
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.
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.
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.
employ female handle hope powerful shift start studios understand women
I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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.