Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

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

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

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-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

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

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

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

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

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.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sam Taylor-Johnson

To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.