The opportunity to deceive others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross. Few of us are murderers or thieves, but we have all been liars. And many of us will be unable to get safely into our beds tonight without having told several lies over the course of the day.
What does this say about us and about the life we are making with one another?


Sam Harris

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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
I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
SAM MENDES
One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
SAM MENDES
All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES
Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES
The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES
You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
SAM MENDES
I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
SAM MENDES
There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
SAM MENDES
The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
SAM MENDES
You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
SAM MENDES
I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
SAM MENDES
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w...
SAM MENDES
I don't think good and evil are polarized.
SAM MENDES
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is...
SAM MENDES
It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu...
SAM MENDES
I want to inspire, and be inspired.
SAM MENDES
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
SAM LEVENSON
I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
SAM LEVENSON
Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b...
SAM LEVENSON
The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an...
SAM LEVENSON
When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ...
SAM LEVENSON
You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
SAM LEVENSON
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your im...
SAM LEVENSON