Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes

One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

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

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

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

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

I'm good at keeping secrets.

I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.

I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.

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

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

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.

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

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

I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

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

I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.

If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

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 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.

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

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

I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.

Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.

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.

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

In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.