Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes

Sam Taylor-Wood — English Artist born on March 04, 1967,

Samantha Louise "Sam" Taylor-JohnsonOBE is an English filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. Her directorial feature film debut came in 2009 with Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of the Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon. She is one of a group of artists known as the Young British Artists... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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

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

Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes

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