Latest Sam Mendes Quotes from Interviews

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• Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to mention the fact that you're confronted by them as grandparents. So you also have that terrible shock, a mirror image of your own. You suddenly seem to be so helpless in the face of young children. And you think, "How did you ever bring up me?"

  Sam Mendes

  Children, Thinking, Mirrors

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prodded and touched and obsessed over.

  Sam Mendes

  Drinking, Pregnancy, Wine

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

• The moment you have kids, you are prey to judgment, but you also become a judge. You find yourself going, "Can you believe what she did with such-and-such?" at school.

  Sam Mendes

  Believe, School, Kids

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

• The importance of rehearsal is maybe you want to talk about how the scene's going to be designed, how it's going to be staged, all of those things. It's all about preparation, and deciding what mutually you don't want to do, rather than necessarily what you do.

  Sam Mendes

  Preparation, Rehearsal, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through different places and you're going to meet new people. At the same time, you have to not make it feel too obvious and too crudely episodic.

  Sam Mendes

  Simple, People, Joy

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

• There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

  Sam Mendes

  High Standards, Making Changes, Instinct

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

• If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

  Sam Mendes

  Play, Classic, Chekhov

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've directed bits of action and so I know that it's long and it's very detailed. Editing action is a good deal more exciting than shooting action. Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

  Sam Mendes

  Editing, Long, Pieces

• I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.

  Sam Mendes

  Car, Cost, Pushing

  Source: collider.com

• Every Bond is different and every generation needs a different Bond and it's been able to move with the times.

  Sam Mendes

  Moving, Different, Needs

  Source: collider.com