Sam Mendes Quotes
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I like throwing snowballs at small children.
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
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I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
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I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
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I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
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I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.
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Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.
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I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.