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Sam Mendes

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I like throwing snowballs at small children.


— Sam Mendes


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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.


— Sam Mendes


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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.


— Sam Mendes


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I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.


— Sam Mendes


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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.


— Sam Mendes


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


— Sam Mendes


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


— Sam Mendes


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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.


— Sam Mendes


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


— Sam Mendes


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In 2008 Mendes directed Revolutionary Road starring his then-wife Kate Winslet along with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kathy Bates. He spent his first two years overseeing the redesign of the theatre and his opening production was Stephen Sondheim's Assassins in 1992. Soon he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company where his productions many of them featuring Simon Russell Beale included Troilus and Cressida Richard III and The Tempest.

Samuel Alexander "Sam" Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director. In 2000 Mendes was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to drama" and in 2005 received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain.

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