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Movie Quotes by Sam Mendes
- It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if…
- The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love…
- Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
- The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
- For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
- I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
- One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
- The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
- 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.…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
More Movie Quotes
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- I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. — Darren Aronofsky
- To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't… — Darren Aronofsky
- I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears. — Dave Attell
- I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for… — Dave Attell
- Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. — Kevin Bacon
- The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy… — Kevin Bacon
- The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script. — David Bailey
- I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean… — Amy Adams
- Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. — Alec Baldwin