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There is an immense, childlike enthusiasm about the man. It's inspiring when you work with a 77-year-old man who has that kind of love and excitement still in him about what he does. And like Paul Newman, each day is like the first day of his career. - Sam Mendes Quotes

There is an immense, childlike enthusiasm about the man. It's inspiring when you work with a 77-year-old man who has that kind of love and excitement still in him about what he does. And like Paul Newman, each day is like the first day of his career.

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. - Sam Mendes Quotes

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

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You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't. - Sam Mendes Quotes

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

Believe British Director

I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or good filmmaking. It's something else that has nothing to do with what you've done. This is in 1999, made by people in 1999 for people in 1999 about people in 1999. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or good filmmaking. It's something else that has nothing to do with what you've done. This is in 1999, made by people in 1999 for people in 1999 about people in 1999.

I think that's a wonderful thing when there's somebody at the top of their game but they still want to test themselves. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I think that's a wonderful thing when there's somebody at the top of their game but they still want to test themselves.

Game

I think that's a wonderful thing when there's somebody at the top of their game but they still want to test themselves. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I think that's a wonderful thing when there's somebody at the top of their game but they still want to test themselves.

Game

I'm completely amazed and delighted. I kept my fingers crossed it would get good critical reaction, but the real surprise is that it's crossed over into the mainstream so comprehensively. I wasn't expecting that. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I'm completely amazed and delighted. I kept my fingers crossed it would get good critical reaction, but the real surprise is that it's crossed over into the mainstream so comprehensively. I wasn't expecting that.

You make the movies for audiences. You get as many people to see the movie as possible. You do not make them for Academy voters. There are only 6,000 and me. It's going to get at least one vote. I'll vote across the board for my movie. - Sam Mendes Quotes

You make the movies for audiences. You get as many people to see the movie as possible. You do not make them for Academy voters. There are only 6,000 and me. It's going to get at least one vote. I'll vote across the board for my movie.

I'm from the theater, where the process of creating a character from the ground up is something that's not imposed on him. We started working on it months in advance, and we rehearsed for two weeks, and even the look of his apartment came out of discussions with him and the production designer. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I'm from the theater, where the process of creating a character from the ground up is something that's not imposed on him. We started working on it months in advance, and we rehearsed for two weeks, and even the look of his apartment came out of discussions with him and the production designer.

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 Quotes

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

British Director

It always gets worse as you get older. You get more nervous, there's more to lose. He's got to live up to being Paul Newman. - Sam Mendes Quotes

It always gets worse as you get older. You get more nervous, there's more to lose. He's got to live up to being Paul Newman.

You have to have a secret... There is a hidden movie in all the best films. The secret is in every frame... in a good movie, there is always a shadow movie underneath the text, which allows the film to float above reality. - Sam Mendes Quotes

You have to have a secret... There is a hidden movie in all the best films. The secret is in every frame... in a good movie, there is always a shadow movie underneath the text, which allows the film to float above reality.

I'm interested in those personal stories, not taking a political stand. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I'm interested in those personal stories, not taking a political stand.

There's one two-minute scene that I took out because I felt in the end Capone was a more sinister and frightening presence in the film if he never appeared. - Sam Mendes Quotes

There's one two-minute scene that I took out because I felt in the end Capone was a more sinister and frightening presence in the film if he never appeared.

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality. - Sam Mendes Quotes

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.

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You try to explain what you see. You have to do it with everyone. You're explaining how it looks, how it feels, its atmospheres and colors, what you feel thematically, what you feel the film is reaching for. You hope that they want to make it with you. - Sam Mendes Quotes

You try to explain what you see. You have to do it with everyone. You're explaining how it looks, how it feels, its atmospheres and colors, what you feel thematically, what you feel the film is reaching for. You hope that they want to make it with you.

I play a lot of cricket. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I play a lot of cricket.

The bad thing about all this awards stuff is, it pits one film-maker up against another, it pits one movie up against the other. But, the good thing, there's no big movie this year that's gonna blitz everybody. You don't have to see all these movies and debate. And that's great. - Sam Mendes Quotes

The bad thing about all this awards stuff is, it pits one film-maker up against another, it pits one movie up against the other. But, the good thing, there's no big movie this year that's gonna blitz everybody. You don't have to see all these movies and debate. And that's great.

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts. - Sam Mendes Quotes

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

British Director

Tony's book confronts head-on the idea that the reason [the men] joined up is because of these movies. It gave me the opportunity to shoot this moment where you're shooting a bunch of guys about to go to war who are watching a movie about a bunch of guys at war, knowing that our film will be seen by a bunch of guys who are possibly going to go to war. It's all a weird discussion of how movies affect us. - Sam Mendes Quotes

Tony's book confronts head-on the idea that the reason [the men] joined up is because of these movies. It gave me the opportunity to shoot this moment where you're shooting a bunch of guys about to go to war who are watching a movie about a bunch of guys at war, knowing that our film will be seen by a bunch of guys who are possibly going to go to war. It's all a weird discussion of how movies affect us.

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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie. - Sam Mendes Quotes

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

British Director

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. - Sam Mendes Quotes

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

British Director

It's 115 degrees, you're away from trees, cars, everything. You can't hear anything because the wind's blowing. You don't have your clothes, your car, your girlfriend, anything. And I really think Jake forgot he was acting a lot of times. - Sam Mendes Quotes

It's 115 degrees, you're away from trees, cars, everything. You can't hear anything because the wind's blowing. You don't have your clothes, your car, your girlfriend, anything. And I really think Jake forgot he was acting a lot of times.

But it's 115 degrees, you're away from trees, cars, everything; you can't hear anything because the wind's blowing; you don't have your clothes, your car, your girlfriend, anything. And I really think Jake forgot he was acting a lot of times, - Sam Mendes Quotes

But it's 115 degrees, you're away from trees, cars, everything; you can't hear anything because the wind's blowing; you don't have your clothes, your car, your girlfriend, anything. And I really think Jake forgot he was acting a lot of times,

I think one of the things I was worried about with Jake was that we all know him, soft and puppyish and doe-eyed and sensitive and floppy hair and all of those things, ... This was a tough, young Marine. Yes, he was innocent and he needed to be accessible but he also needed to be angry, frustrated, difficult, dark, doubting, all sorts of other things and I'd never seen him do that before. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I think one of the things I was worried about with Jake was that we all know him, soft and puppyish and doe-eyed and sensitive and floppy hair and all of those things, ... This was a tough, young Marine. Yes, he was innocent and he needed to be accessible but he also needed to be angry, frustrated, difficult, dark, doubting, all sorts of other things and I'd never seen him do that before.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. - Sam Mendes Quotes

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

British Director

It's not seeking to deliver a message, and it's not seeking to teach a lesson, any of those things, - Sam Mendes Quotes

It's not seeking to deliver a message, and it's not seeking to teach a lesson, any of those things,

[Comparing the two actors,] Jarhead ... They're alike in some ways, both great listeners, but they react very differently. Jake is reacting to everything that passes him by, and is very readable in his reactions, whereas Peter has mastered watching as an art. He sits on it and holds it, holds it, holds it, and then it all explodes in a volcanic way. But they were both right on the edge. - Sam Mendes Quotes

[Comparing the two actors,] Jarhead ... They're alike in some ways, both great listeners, but they react very differently. Jake is reacting to everything that passes him by, and is very readable in his reactions, whereas Peter has mastered watching as an art. He sits on it and holds it, holds it, holds it, and then it all explodes in a volcanic way. But they were both right on the edge.

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. - Sam Mendes Quotes

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

British Director

As I got everything wrong at the same time-costume, design and performance-it made it easier in a way, because I could see the film I didn't want to make. - Sam Mendes Quotes

As I got everything wrong at the same time-costume, design and performance-it made it easier in a way, because I could see the film I didn't want to make.

Kurosawa films that are not dialogue-based. - Sam Mendes Quotes

Kurosawa films that are not dialogue-based.

Actors get used to scenes being cut. - Sam Mendes Quotes

Actors get used to scenes being cut.

People are capable of good and bad. As long as we continue perpetrating these absurd two-dimensional stories that everything is black and white - you're either good or bad - then the longer we'll misunderstand how many interesting stories you can tell in the space that exists between the two. - Sam Mendes Quotes

People are capable of good and bad. As long as we continue perpetrating these absurd two-dimensional stories that everything is black and white - you're either good or bad - then the longer we'll misunderstand how many interesting stories you can tell in the space that exists between the two.

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. - Sam Mendes Quotes

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.

British Director

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 Quotes

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.

British Director

You do things bit by bit. That's the only way to play something really original, where the details stand out. You're not just showing us a cliched, generic character that you've seen before. - Sam Mendes Quotes

You do things bit by bit. That's the only way to play something really original, where the details stand out. You're not just showing us a cliched, generic character that you've seen before.

I like throwing snowballs at small children. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I like throwing snowballs at small children.

British Director

Directing, I realize, on film is far more personal, you know. Cinema really is a director's medium. This is a very personal film. - Sam Mendes Quotes

Directing, I realize, on film is far more personal, you know. Cinema really is a director's medium. This is a very personal film.

British Director

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I don't have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I don't have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

British Director

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

British Director

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. - Sam Mendes Quotes

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.

British Director

I froze for a bit, in truth-for about six months after the Oscars... There were lots of scripts landing on my desk. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I froze for a bit, in truth-for about six months after the Oscars... There were lots of scripts landing on my desk.

We did ask, ... And luckily, instead of saying, 'Well, maybe, if you make a few adjustments,' there was some intelligent person at the Pentagon who flat-out said, 'No way.' Which is what you want, because there are lots of stories about them saying yes, then at the last minute wanting changes and, before you know it, everything's compromised. - Sam Mendes Quotes

We did ask, ... And luckily, instead of saying, 'Well, maybe, if you make a few adjustments,' there was some intelligent person at the Pentagon who flat-out said, 'No way.' Which is what you want, because there are lots of stories about them saying yes, then at the last minute wanting changes and, before you know it, everything's compromised.

To me, that makes it more psychological, - Sam Mendes Quotes

To me, that makes it more psychological,

I'd like to think there's a huge interest out there because it's part of our daily life. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I'd like to think there's a huge interest out there because it's part of our daily life.

I don't know that people realize we're really at war, ... Or what that does to a soldier. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I don't know that people realize we're really at war, ... Or what that does to a soldier.

I don't want to tell people what to think about war, ... I just want them to think about it. - Sam Mendes Quotes

I don't want to tell people what to think about war, ... I just want them to think about it.

Everything about that war seemed so far away, ... The media never really was allowed in. All you'd see were these tiny little bombs like they were hitting toy towns. There was no sense that this was actually a war, that there was a human toll. - Sam Mendes Quotes

Everything about that war seemed so far away, ... The media never really was allowed in. All you'd see were these tiny little bombs like they were hitting toy towns. There was no sense that this was actually a war, that there was a human toll.

I don't think anyone realized how important that war was, - Sam Mendes Quotes

I don't think anyone realized how important that war was,

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