139 Quotes by Sam Taylor-Johnson

The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.

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.

I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.

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

I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.

I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.