“At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could si...” — Sam Taylor-Johnson Quote

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.

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.

People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.

I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'

With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

I don't always think I am right, not by a long shot, but no one stifles me. When I care deeply about something, you are going to know.

I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in long shot for a long take. On the short films, I was teaching myself how to express something personal cinematically, how to use the language of film the best I could.