Mendes Quotes

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. - Sam Mendes

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. - Sam Mendes

You've got a load of movies that are engaged in political subjects. - Sam Mendes

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't. - Sam Mendes

You try to explain what you see. You have to do it with everyone. You're explaining how it looks, how it feels, its atmospheres and colors, what you feel thematically, what you feel the film is reaching for. You hope that they want to make it with you. - Sam Mendes

You think about taking audiences on a journey. - Sam Mendes

You make the movies for audiences. You get as many people to see the movie as possible. You do not make them for Academy voters. There are only 6,000 and me. It's going to get at least one vote. I'll vote across the board for my movie. - Sam Mendes

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. - Sam Mendes

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. - Sam Mendes

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. - Sam Mendes