Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

I think everything within film and TV helps inform every other role, so it's definitely helped my acting, being on the other side of the camera, and it's just given me a whole new appreciation for how hard everybody in the crew works.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

I like making movies.

Directing a film is a lot of work.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film.

The most creative phase of a film is in shooting, because structure is the defining element of that phase.

Making a film is just layers and layers of work of edits and trial and error.

I am eternally impressed and amazed by what directors do.

I loved working with Renoir on 'The Southerner.' Oh, I loved it! I particularly loved when he had a scene with a cow going through a garden, and he wanted a little dog to come and bark at it and chase it out.

Directing a film is a lot of physical work.

You have more time to work in movies. My experience with movies is that you have more time to experiment with the character and camera angles and things like that.

I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.