Sam Mendes Quotes

You make the movies for audiences. You get as many people to see the movie as possible. You do not make them for Academy voters. There are only 6,000 and me. It's going to get at least one vote. I'll vote across the board for my movie. - Sam Mendes

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

I found that it was one of the things that attracted me [to this project]. It's the idea that you train a huge group of men to go to war, and then what happens when you take away the war, what happens during that period of time, which is really at the center of the movie. They turned on themselves and each other. They create their own wars?All the war literature that I had read had been about combat, and here was a story about there being no combat even though you're trained to kill. - Sam Mendes

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. - Sam Mendes