Sam Taylor-Johnson quote: "When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it."

I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went ...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to we...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anasta...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to trea...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let my...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my th...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fant...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to runnin...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knoc...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still ...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people ...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more to...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of p...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move ...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hea...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...&...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things ab...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It'...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON

But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of...
SAM TAYLOR

Now, e-commerce reports to the head of retail.
SAM TAYLOR

They took the brick, threw it through the door. They broke the register.
SAM JOHNSON

I thank him for the gift he has blessed me with.
SAM JOHNSON

It's one thing to support the Wright Amendment. It's another thing to support shutting down your hom...
SAM JOHNSON

They've got some legitimate concerns. We will fix whatever they suggest that we fix. It's pretty app...
SAM JOHNSON

symbolizes how two-faced he is, talking about his war reputation, which is questionable on the one h...
SAM JOHNSON

This can change Polk County. This is the only true, viable plan.
SAM JOHNSON

I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I ...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me s...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from ...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used t...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great thi...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout ...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative struct...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough ar...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of ...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalys...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art ...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your ima...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think yo...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... becau...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman th...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD

I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I don't analyse things, and I don't look back. I can think forward - but only about my famil...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Only recently have I been introduced to the gym and heavy weightlifting and things like that. Before...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I was brought up by my mum and my sister. I've always been around independent women; I like that...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I want to work with great directors. I've picked films based on the script or the character and ...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I wouldn't want to be a James Bond.
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favori...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy par...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's r...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it a...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I have to be fully committed to do a project nowadays, because if I say yes to something, it means t...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

The problem with independent films is that they can be hit or miss. I've seen scripts that have ...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

If you agree to do a sex scene, you have to be willing to not be awkward about it. C'mon! I don&...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

My whole thing, my priority, is my family, my kids, and my wife. That's my future. I don't r...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I'm happy to say I'm a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, wo...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and chan...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I'm not the kind of male who has to put my imprint on everything.
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I like my world to be calm.
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

I'll never be Jennifer Lawrence or Tom Cruise, someone who can hold a movie and then be charming...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

My heart only beats for you but you never listen it
SAM

You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go
SAM

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, i...
JOHNSON

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely ne...
JOHNSON

He that never thinks can never be wise.
JOHNSON

The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
JOHNSON

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon t...
JOHNSON

To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
JOHNSON

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by othe...
JOHNSON

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complai...
JOHNSON

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
JOHNSON

Language is the pedigree of nations.
JOHNSON

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that...
JOHNSON

There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in co...
JOHNSON

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
JOHNSON

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
JOHNSON

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but...
JOHNSON

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
JOHNSON

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
JOHNSON

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them...
JOHNSON

Language is the dress of thought.
JOHNSON

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
JOHNSON

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memo...
JOHNSON

Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close...
SAM KEAN

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
SAM WALTON

Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal...
SAM YAGAN

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde...
SAM HOUSTON

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
SAM KEEN

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly...
SAM KEEN

It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul...
SAM LEVENSON

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what...
SAM RAYBURN

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
SAM RAYBURN

I like power and I like to use it.
SAM RAYBURN

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
SAM RAYBURN

If you want to get along, go along.
SAM RAYBURN

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
SAM RAYBURN

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
SAM RAYBURN

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
SAM RAYBURN

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil...
SAM RAIMI

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo...
SAM RAIMI

Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha...
SAM RAIMI

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
SAM RAIMI

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin...
SAM RAIMI

I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ...
SAM RAIMI

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never...
SAM RAIMI

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
SAM RAIMI

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ...
SAM RAIMI

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
SAM RAIMI

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ...
SAM RAIMI

I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the...
SAM RAIMI

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
SAM RAIMI

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit...
SAM RAIMI

I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall...
SAM RAIMI

I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the...
SAM RAIMI

I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr...
SAM RAIMI

I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ...
SAM RAIMI

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an...
SAM RAIMI

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
SAM RAIMI

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca...
SAM RAIMI

If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
SAM RAIMI

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct...
SAM RAIMI

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the...
SAM RAIMI

I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
SAM RAIMI

The Price Is Right can really get me going.
SAM PECKINPAH

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
SAM PECKINPAH

Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
SAM PECKINPAH

Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
SAM PECKINPAH

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
SAM PECKINPAH

Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin...
SAM PALLADIO

My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never...
SAM PALLADIO

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ...
SAM PALLADIO

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
SAM PALLADIO

If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'...
SAM PALLADIO

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
SAM NEILL

'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
SAM NEILL

I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'...
SAM NEILL

I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co...
SAM NEILL

I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love...
SAM NEILL

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
SAM NEILL

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T...
SAM NEILL

If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain...
SAM NEILL

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i...
SAM NEILL

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
SAM NEILL

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ...
SAM MENDES

It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi...
SAM MENDES

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
SAM MENDES

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES

You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
SAM MENDES

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
SAM MENDES

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
SAM MENDES

All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES

Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES

When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

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When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

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