More - 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.

Sam Mendes

 Enthusiasm

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

Sam Mendes

 British Director Home

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

 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

 

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

 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

 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

 

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

 Audiences

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

 Character

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

 British Director