“You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. ...” — Sam Taylor-Johnson Quote

You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.

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.

I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

When Roger Ailes hired me, he knew I was the daughter of a college professor and a nurse. There was nothing in this resume that would telegraph, 'She's a secret conservative.'

I'm an actor, I can play anything. That's literally what I'm hired to do.

I came up in Australia and I was really lucky that straight out of school I was hired in a play. It was a production of 'The History Boys.'

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than just waiting around to be hired.