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

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"When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool because, not only is he great in all his movies, but, as a person, he's just really cool."

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"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."
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