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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.

~Sam Mendes

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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.

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

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

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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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I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

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I like throwing snowballs at small children.

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: August 1st, 1965

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