107 Quotes by Sam Mendes

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

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.

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.

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

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 don't think good and evil are polarized.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

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.