Sam Mendes

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

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

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

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.