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-Wood
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. – Sam Taylor-Wood
One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died. – Sam Taylor-Wood
At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn’t the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room. – Sam Taylor-Wood
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. – Sam Taylor-Wood
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. – Sam Taylor-Wood
Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you’re this, I dunno, scarlet woman they’re all gossiping about. – Sam Taylor-Wood
I’ve been through plenty in my life where I’ve really had to focus on the day ahead… because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is… Once you’ve stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day. – Sam Taylor-Wood
Money scares me, and it always has done. I’ve got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don’t like to think about it. – Sam Taylor-Wood
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-Wood
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. – Sam Taylor-Wood
I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it. – Sam Taylor-Wood
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. – Sam Taylor-Wood