Mendes, Sam Filmography

• Netherland (2013)
• Netherland (2013)
• Skyfall (2012)
• Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 (2012)
• Skyfall (2012)
• The Secrets of Skyfall (2012)
• The Library: A Further Exploration of the World of 'Road to Perdition' (2010)
• Out of the Ashes (2010)
• A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall (2010)
• Away We Go (2009)
• The Making of 'Away We Go' (2009)
• The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2009)
• A Discussion About 'Things We Lost in the Fire' (2008)
• Revolutionary Road (2008)
• Untitled Rufus Wainwright Documentary (2008)
• Revolutionary Road (2008)
• Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
• Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
• The Kite Runner (2007)
• Starter for 10 (2006)
• Background (2006)
• Jarhead Diaries (2006)
• Semper Fi (2006)
• Who Needs Sleep? (2006)
• The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (2005)
• Jarhead (2005)
• 2nd Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards (2005)
• The Laurence Olivier Awards 2003 (2003)
• Road to Perdition (2002)
• Road to Perdition (2002)
• The 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2002)
• The Making of 'Road to Perdition' (2002)
• Cannes: Through the Eyes of the Hunter (2001)
• American Beauty: Look Closer... (2000)
• The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000)
• The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2000)
• The 52nd Annual Directors Guild Awards (2000)
• Still Tickin': The Return of A Clockwork Orange (2000)
• American Beauty (1999)
• Little Voice (1998)
• Company (1996)
• Company (1996)
• Company (1996)
• Cabaret (1993)
• Cabaret (1993)

Mendes, Sam Filmography

• The New T-Girl 6 (2007)
• King Size Brazilians (2006)

Famous quotes by Sam Mendes:

"I like throwing snowballs at small children."

"You do things bit by bit. That's the only way to play something really original, where the details stand out. You're not just showing us a cliched, generic character that you've seen before."

"When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white."

"The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day."

"You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't."

"You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images."

"You have to have a secret... There is a hidden movie in all the best films. The secret is in every frame... in a good movie, there is always a shadow movie underneath the text, which allows the film to float above reality."

"The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words."

"There is an immense, childlike enthusiasm about the man. It's inspiring when you work with a 77-year-old man who has that kind of love and excitement still in him about what he does. And like Paul Newman, each day is like the first day of his career."

"People are capable of good and bad. As long as we continue perpetrating these absurd two-dimensional stories that everything is black and white - you're either good or bad - then the longer we'll misunderstand how many interesting stories you can tell in the space that exists between the two."

"You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me."

"I want to inspire, and be inspired."

"I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself."

"I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie."

"I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly."

"Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through."

"It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself."

"You think about taking audiences on a journey."

"As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate."

"For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie."