Sam Mendes Quotes
We did ask... And luckily, instead of saying, 'Well, maybe, if you make a few adjustments,' there was some intelligent person at the Pentagon who flat-out said, 'No way.' Which is what you want, because there are lots of stories about them saying yes, then at the last minute wanting changes and, before you know it, everything's compromised.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
- Sam Mendes
Tony's book confronts head-on the idea that the reason [the men] joined up is because of these movies... It gave me the opportunity to shoot this moment where you're shooting a bunch of guys about to go to war who are watching a movie about a bunch of guys at war, knowing that our film will be seen by a bunch of guys who are possibly going to go to war. It's all a weird discussion of how movies affect us.
- Sam Mendes
