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.
"Sir Samuel Alexander "Sam" Mendes", Commander of the Order of the British Empire/CBE is an English stage and film director. He is best known for directing the comedy-drama film American Beauty (1999 film)/American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Director/Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film Road to Perdition (2002), and the James Bond in film/James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015 film)/Spectre (2015). He also is known for dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (musical)/Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (musical)/Company (1996), and Gypsy: A Musical Fable/Gypsy (2003). He directed an original stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
In 2000, Mendes was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to drama" and in the same year was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S./Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain.
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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.
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
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 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 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'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.
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