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Samuel Alexander Mendes, CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director. He is best known for directing the drama film American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film Road to Perdition (2002), and the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015).

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You think about taking audiences on a journey.

Journey, Thinking, Audience, Audiences, Think

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.

Anymore, Black And White, Day, Numbers, Shame, Wisdom

The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through different places and you're going to meet new people. At the same time, you have to not make it feel too obvious and too crudely episodic.

Different, Episodic, Joy, People, Road, Simple

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

Car, Cost, Made, Movies

The importance of rehearsal is maybe you want to talk about how the scene's going to be designed, how it's going to be staged, all of those things. It's all about preparation, and deciding what mutually you don't want to do, rather than necessarily what you do.

Importance, Mutually, Preparation, Rehearsal, Want

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

Black And White, Drive, Grass, Green, Want, White

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.

Believe, Directors, Fact, Firsts, Quite

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

Evil, Good, Good And Evil, Think, Thinking

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

Confidence, Ego, Essential, Essentials

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

Character, Talking, Silence, Actors, Carry

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

America, Director, Directors, Firsts, Fortunate

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

Cost, Loads, Lucky, Pressure, Take

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Bombarded By, Want, Sometimes, Work, Chairs, Audience

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, Language, Learn, Suit, Trying

Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

Increments, Littles, Pieces, Shooting, Tiny

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

Gods, Ifs, Lap, People

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.

Bags, Exploring, Same, Style, Use, Used

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

Different, Move, Moving, Needs, Times

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

Character, Goes On, Lifestyle, Movie, Starts

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is. . . I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

Actors, Film, Know, People, Thinking, Tom

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