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41 quotes by Sam Mendes

Samuel Alexander "Sam" Mendes, CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director. He is best known for directing the comedy-drama film American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film Road to Perdition (2002), and the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). He also is known for dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994),...
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Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

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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... →

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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 to make a... →

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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... →

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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. And that's... →

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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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I don't think good and evil are polarized.

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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

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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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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 with the devil 20... →

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I want to inspire, and be inspired.

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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... →

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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that... →

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