The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie. — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts. — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame,… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
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,… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly. — 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… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag… — 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
