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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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"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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A.E. Samaan

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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A.E. Samaan

"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

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A.E. Samaan

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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A.E. Samaan

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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A.E. Samaan

"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

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A.E. Samaan

"Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen."

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A.E. Samaan

"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."

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A.E. Samaan

"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."

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A.E. Samaan

"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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A.E. Samaan

"It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it."

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

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Sam Mendes
"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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Sam Mendes
"Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that."

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

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Sam Mendes
"I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it."

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Sam Mendes
"Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other."

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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
"The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words."

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Sam Mendes
"It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself."

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