All Sam Mendes Quotes
- 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
- You think about taking audiences on a journey. Audiences
- I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it. Mail
- 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, and a first-time… All
- It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is… Actor
- 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 pact… Ago
- You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't. Go