I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies. — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different. — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
Every Bond is different and every generation needs a different Bond and it's been able to move with the times. — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
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… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
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… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
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,… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
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… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
Now Im back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate.… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
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… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
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… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces. — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
