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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 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.
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