Film Quotes by Sam Mendes

13 Film quotes by Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes condenses his approach into thirteen brief statements, balancing his stage‑craft roots with a cinematic eye for scale and intimacy.

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

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

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

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I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor…

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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…

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

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag…

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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…

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I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than…

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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene…

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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.

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

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

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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…

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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their…

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You think about taking audiences on a journey.

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