139 Quotes by Sam Taylor-Johnson

When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.

When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.

You have to be brave when you've got a kid.

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

Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.

The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.

It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.

Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, 'Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done.'