Sam Mendes

Mendes, Sam Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Bond 24

  2015, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Grand Hotel

  2014, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Grand Hotel

  2014, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Penny Dreadful

  2014, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Bond's Greatest Moments

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Shooting Bond

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Skyfall: Modern Day Bond

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Everything or Nothing

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Skyfall

  2012, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Blood

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Skyfall

  2012, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen The Secrets of Skyfall

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The BAFTA Britannia Awards

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Library: A Further Exploration of the World of 'Road to Perdition'

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Cinematic Life: The Art & Influence of Conrad Hall

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Out of the Ashes

  2010, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominee: Best Motion Picture - Drama & Best Director
• Play in Full Screen The Making of 'Away We Go'

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Away We Go

  2009, role: director
• Play in Full Screen A Discussion About 'Things We Lost in the Fire'

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Producer
• Play in Full Screen Revolutionary Road

  2008, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Revolutionary Road

  2008, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Untitled Rufus Wainwright Documentary

  2008, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Stuart: A Life Backwards

  2007, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Kite Runner

  2007, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Things We Lost in the Fire

  2007, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Semper Fi

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Who Needs Sleep?

  2006, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Background

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Jarhead Diaries

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Starter for 10

  2006, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Jarhead

  2005, role: director
• Play in Full Screen 2nd Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself - Honouree 'Lifetime Achievement Award'
• Play in Full Screen The Laurence Olivier Awards 2003

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Making of 'Road to Perdition'

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Road to Perdition

  2002, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Road to Perdition

  2002, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Cannes: Through the Eyes of the Hunter

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 72nd Annual Academy Awards

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself - Winner: Best Director
• Play in Full Screen The 52nd Annual Directors Guild Awards

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself - Winner
• Play in Full Screen Still Tickin': The Return of A Clockwork Orange

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen American Beauty: Look Closer...

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself - Winner: Best Director
• Play in Full Screen American Beauty

  1999, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Little Voice

  1998, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Company

  1996, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Company

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Company

  1996, role: miscellaneous crew

Mendes, Sam Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The New T-Girl 6

  2007, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen King Size Brazilians

  2006, role: actor

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."