Top 41 Quotes by Sam Mendes

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.

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

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.

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

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

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

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

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

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

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