Quotes by Sam Mendes

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.

Actors

People

Skills

All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.

Brain

Going Out

Trying

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

America

Directors

Firsts

Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you’re remembering your own parents as parents, not to mention the fact that you’re confronted by them as grandparents. So you also have that terrible shock, a mirror image of your own. You suddenly seem to be so helpless in the face of young children. And you think, “How did you ever bring up me?”

Children

Mirrors

Thinking

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

Ego

Essentials

Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond.

Commitment

Kings

Years

Every Bond is different and every generation needs a different Bond and it’s been able to move with the times.

Different

Moving

Needs

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

Keys

Scene

Shots

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.

Class

Directors

Teacher

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.

Challenges

Stories

Way

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Actors

America

Answers

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Audience

Bags

Beautiful

Believe

Black And White

Bombarded By

Brain

Car

Challenges

Character

Chekhov

Children

Class

Classic

Climbing

Commitment

Competition

Cost

Cutting

Different

Directors

Done

Drinking

Editing

Ego

Essentials

Evil

Feels

Film

Filmmaker

Firefighter

Firsts

Fun

Games

Given

Goes On

Going Out

Good And Evil

Good Day

Good Enough

Green

High Standards

Home

Ifs

Inspire

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Quotes by Sam Mendes

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.

All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.

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

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond.

Every Bond is different and every generation needs a different Bond and it’s been able to move with the times.

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.

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.

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