The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.


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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