All Sam Mendes Quotes
- One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. Film
- Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces. Action
- I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. Car
- Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The… Best
- The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. Influenced
- I like throwing snowballs at small children. Children
- I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and… Bag
- If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything. Funny
- Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down.… Big
- When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white. Black
- 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. Believe
- 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 with… Audience
- You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot… Cost
- 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… Acting
- Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent… Actor
- I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly. Competition
- I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different. Blair
- One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the… Actor
- All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My… All
- I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas… Big