I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.


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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr...
SAM RAIMI
I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI
You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ...
SAM RAIMI
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an...
SAM RAIMI
Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
SAM RAIMI
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca...
SAM RAIMI
If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
SAM RAIMI
I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct...
SAM RAIMI
When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the...
SAM RAIMI
I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
SAM RAIMI
The Price Is Right can really get me going.
SAM PECKINPAH
Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
SAM PECKINPAH
Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
SAM PECKINPAH
Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
SAM PECKINPAH
The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
SAM PECKINPAH
Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin...
SAM PALLADIO
My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never...
SAM PALLADIO
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ...
SAM PALLADIO
I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
SAM PALLADIO
If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'...
SAM PALLADIO
Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
SAM NEILL
'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
SAM NEILL
I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'...
SAM NEILL
I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co...
SAM NEILL
I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love...
SAM NEILL
As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
SAM NEILL
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T...
SAM NEILL
If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain...
SAM NEILL
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL
Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL
People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL
I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i...
SAM NEILL
I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL
I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL
I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
SAM NEILL
Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ...
SAM MENDES
It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi...
SAM MENDES
For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
SAM MENDES
One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES
I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES
Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES
Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES
I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES
You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES
If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
SAM MENDES