Sam Mendes Quotes - Page 2

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• You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

  Sam Mendes

  Lucky, Cost, Pressure

  "A Private, Interior Film". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.

  Sam Mendes

  Brain, Trying, Going Out

  "Sam smiles" by Simon Fanshawe, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2000.

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• I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

  Sam Mendes

  Thinking, People, Different

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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.

  Sam Mendes

  Believe, Directors, Firsts

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• I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

  Sam Mendes

  Thinking, Competition, Might

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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.

  Sam Mendes

  Challenges, Stories, Way

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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.

  Sam Mendes

  Black And White, Green, Want

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• Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

  Sam Mendes

  Firefighter, Together, Kevin

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• I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

  Sam Mendes

  Years, Apprenticeship, Feels

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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.

  Sam Mendes

  Wisdom, Black And White, Numbers

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• You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

  Sam Mendes

  Opportunity, Numbers, Given

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• I like throwing snowballs at small children.

  Sam Mendes

  Children, Throwing, Snowball

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• If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.

  Sam Mendes

  Shooting, Ifs

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• Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

  Sam Mendes

  Fun, Thumbs Up, Games

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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

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• One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

  Sam Mendes

  Thinking, People, Actors

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

  Sam Mendes

  People, Lap, Ifs

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• Now Im back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  Sam Mendes

  Running, Home, Want

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• I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

  Sam Mendes

  Car, Cost, Made

  "Director Sam Mendes Talks SKYFALL, How to Craft a Bond Film, the Franchise’s Similarity to DOCTOR WHO, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 1, 2012.

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• One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

  Sam Mendes

  Want, Film, Lifetime

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