Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes
Samuel Alexander "Sam" Mendes, CBE is an English stage and film director. He is best known for directing the comedy-drama film American Beauty, which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film Road to Perdition, and the James Bond films Skyfalland Spectre. He also is known for dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret, Oliver!, Company, and Gypsy. He directed an original stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth1 August 1965
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.
I like throwing snowballs at small children.
The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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.
Every Bond is different and every generation needs a different Bond and it's been able to move with the times.