Sam Mendes

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

— Sam Mendes

#black and white #drive #field #grass #green

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#freeze #given #just #nothing #number

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. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#cost #going #just #know #loads

You think about taking audiences on a journey. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#audiences #journey #taking #think #you

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

— Sam Mendes

#gods #lap #people #you

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. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#enough #filmmaker #going #good #got

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. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#back #bombarded #chairs #forward #got