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Sam Mendes

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

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."

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Donna Grant

"I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot."

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Donna Grant

"I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role."

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Donna Grant

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

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Donna Grant

"I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately."

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Donna Grant

"That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises."

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Donna Grant

"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."

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Donna Grant

"I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make."

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Donna Grant

"Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years."

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

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

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Sam Mendes
"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."

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Sam Mendes
"This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom."

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Sam Mendes
"I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time."

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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."

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Sam Mendes
"I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film."

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

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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."

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Sam Mendes
"As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate."

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