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As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
Sam Mendes
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Sam Mendes
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 1
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Samuel Alexander Sam Mendes
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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 find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
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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 touch completely with reality.
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Every Bond is different and every generation needs a different Bond and it's been able to move with the times.
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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, all of those things. It's all about preparation, and deciding what mutually you don't want to do, rather than necessarily what you do.
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Confidence is essential, but ego is not.
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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 good filmmaking. It's something else that has nothing to do with what you've done. This is in 1999, made by people in 1999 for people in 1999 about people in 1999.
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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 Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond.
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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 style that I used in the first film.
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I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.
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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 it feel too obvious and too crudely episodic.
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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 language to each of them has to suit their brain.
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The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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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 images.
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The moment you have kids, you are prey to judgment, but you also become a judge. You find yourself going, Can you believe what she did with such-and-such? at school.
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