Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.”

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

“My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.”

“I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.”

“When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.”

“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.”

“My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.”

“Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.”