Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

"Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto."

"I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent."

"To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive."

"I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on."

"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."

"If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!"

"A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo."

"I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate."

"I can be very self-destructive, but quietly."

"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."

"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."

"My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine."

"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."

"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."

"Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective."

"I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it."

"Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion."

"My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined."

"I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film."

"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."

"In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races."

"I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself."

"I'm not a shouter, and I'm not a bully."

"Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday."

"I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in."

"I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people."

"In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things."

"I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish."

"I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer."

"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."