Sam Taylor-Wood
Sam Taylor-Wood
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
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth4 March 1967
half inner pin since worse
I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.
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.
mother saws cry
One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
children
Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.
pushing-boundaries rough mcqueen
I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
real college house
After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
giving creative birth
I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
cancer years lost
I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.
hate heart pet
I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.
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.
children past perspective
Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.