Sam Mendes Want Quotations

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.

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

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

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

Now Im back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

The importance of rehearsal is maybe you want to talk about how the scene's going to be designed, how it's going to be staged, all of those things. It's all about preparation, and deciding what mutually you don't want to do, rather than necessarily what you do.

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.