Sam Mendes Quotes

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.
Sam Mendes

Time, God, Live

I want to inspire, and be inspired.
Sam Mendes

Inspired, Inspire

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 and skill will get them through.
Sam Mendes

Through, Against, Used

As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
Sam Mendes

America, Director, Fortunate

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
Sam Mendes

Movie, Keys, Shots

I don't think good and evil are polarized.
Sam Mendes

Good, Evil, Polarized

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
Sam Mendes

Movies, Might, Surprise

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
Sam Mendes

American, Movie, Bond

I like throwing snowballs at small children.
Sam Mendes

Children, Small, Throwing

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
Sam Mendes

Different, Sense, Open

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
Sam Mendes

Work, Movies, Different

I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
Sam Mendes

Getting, Mail, Basically

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
Sam Mendes

Movies, Car, Less

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
Sam Mendes

Live, Through, Lived

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.
Sam Mendes

Work, Together, Wanted

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
Sam Mendes

Home, Enjoy, Living

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

Making, Movie, Films

Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
Sam Mendes

Action, Pieces, Tiny

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
Sam Mendes

Before, Movie, Within

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
Sam Mendes

Movies, Words, Through

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
Sam Mendes

Great, Silence, Words

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
Sam Mendes

Black, Through, Sometimes

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
Sam Mendes

Nothing, Number, Decide

You think about taking audiences on a journey.
Sam Mendes

Journey, Taking, Audiences

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
Sam Mendes

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Biography

Nationality: British

Born: August 1, 1965

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