Sam Taylor-Johnson Life Quotations

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

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

I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.

Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.

I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

Tea is a huge part of my life.

The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.