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Sam Mendes Quotes
«People are capable of good and bad. As long as we continue perpetrating these absurd two-dimensional stories that everything is black and white - you're either good or bad - then the longer we'll misunderstand how many interesting stories you can tell in the space that exists between the two.»
Author: Sam Mendes
«There is an immense, childlike enthusiasm about the man. It's inspiring when you work with a 77-year-old man who has that kind of love and excitement still in him about what he does. And like Paul Newman, each day is like the first day of his career.»
Author: Sam Mendes
«The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.»
Author: Sam Mendes
«You have to have a secret... There is a hidden movie in all the best films. The secret is in every frame... in a good movie, there is always a shadow movie underneath the text, which allows the film to float above reality.»
Author: Sam Mendes
«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.»
Author: Sam Mendes
«You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.»
Author: Sam Mendes
«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.»
Author: Sam Mendes
«When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.»
Author: Sam Mendes
«You do things bit by bit. That's the only way to play something really original, where the details stand out. You're not just showing us a cliched, generic character that you've seen before.»
Author: Sam Mendes
«I like throwing snowballs at small children.»
Author: Sam Mendes