76 Quotes by Sam Taylor-Wood

Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

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.

I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.

I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.

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

A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.

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

Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'

I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.