Quotes By Sam Mendes

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

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

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

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

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 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

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

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.

It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

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

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