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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.


Sam Donaldson

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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...
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