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
distance thinking defining-moments
I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
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 thinking years
I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.
thinking people decision
I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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.
love heart thinking
People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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.
art badly came endless family meant saw
Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
britain scarlet
Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.
focus future hard life mortality plenty seize stared whatever
I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
art artist best came felt room school sit understanding
At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
money scares
Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
future learned life project question
I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.
channels gotten longer steel
When you're no longer ill, and everyone's gotten over the fact that you've had cancer, that core of steel doesn't go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.