The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through different places and you're going to meet new people. At the same time, you have to not make… — 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
