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" A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place. "
Friend
Running
Place
" Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that. "
Grateful
Journey
Shades
" Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world. "
College
You
Artist
" I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent. "
Embarrassing
Obsessed
I Am
" I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on. "
Life
Time
Move On
" I don't think you can judge something without seeing it. "
You
Judge
Seeing
" I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material. "
Start
Hope
Strong
" If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves. "
Person
Creative
Ideas
" If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon! "
Age
You
Someone
" I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark. "
Scar
Like
Love
" I'm very blessed with the perfect husband. "
Husband
Blessed
Perfect
" In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does. "
Fifty
Shades
Christian
" In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races. "
Controversial
Days
Relationship
" I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places. "
You
Decisions
Life
" It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet. "
Bit
Be Nice
Again
" My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy. "
You
Walking
Fearless
" My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine. "
Read
Tarot
Mother
" My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous. "
Mood
Nervous
Play
" 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. "
People
Time
You
" Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality. "
Personality
Sometimes
Trying
" The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes. "
Lashes
Make
Blink
" There's definitely something transformative about clothes. "
Something
Definitely
Clothes
" The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had. "
Think
Me
Independence
" When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile. "
Something
Go
Decide
" When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me. "
Most
Scarf
Mean
" You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.' "
Creative
Me
Think
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