English - Director | March 4, 1967 -
I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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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.
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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.
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