139 Quotes by Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.

I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something, and I tend to feel like it's leading me, and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.

Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.

There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.

I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.

I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.