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The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
- Sam Mendes
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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.
- Sam Mendes
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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 audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.
- Sam Mendes
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
- Sam Mendes
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Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
- Sam Mendes
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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.
- Sam Mendes
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
- Sam Mendes
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I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
- Sam Mendes
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I want to inspire, and be inspired.
- Sam Mendes
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I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
- Sam Mendes
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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.
- Sam Mendes
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
- 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.
- Sam Mendes
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Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
- Sam Mendes
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
- Sam Mendes
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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 black-and-white movie one day.
- Sam Mendes
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