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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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Sam Mendes
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 1
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Director
Television Producer
Theatrical Director
Samuel Alexander Sam Mendes
Samuel Alexander Mendes
Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes
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You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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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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I like throwing snowballs at small children.
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Confidence is essential, but ego is not.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
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I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.
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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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There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.
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The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
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Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.
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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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