Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways.

I hate everything that is rigid. I need freedom.

As I've moved through life, I've found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing.

My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time.

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

Nothing's out of the realm. I think '24' has always keyed into that.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

I like to be as free as possible at all times.

If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.

I think I'm like a free spirit.

Anything that would kind of label me or put me into a category is kind of what I want to avoid. I like the idea of being completely free, like having no area that I couldn't cover.

I'm gonna play this game the way I want to. It might be serious, it might be a comedy, it might be a dramedy, it might be variety, it might be a talk show, whatever. There's no box.

I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

There is no must in art because art is free.

Basically, I'm a free spirit. I'm kind of an Everywoman.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.