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You Quotes by Sam Mendes
- Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose…
- 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…
- You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
- If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
- 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…
- You think about taking audiences on a journey.
- 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…
- You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
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- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide