British - Director | August 1, 1965 -
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.
Sam Mendes
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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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.
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When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
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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.
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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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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
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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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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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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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