139 Quotes by Sam Taylor-Johnson

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.

My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.

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

I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.

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!

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.