Sam Mendes Quotes

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.

The second-grade films - where are they? No more are they made, and yet they were by far the best films for holding hands at, and wasn't this always the main purpose of the cinema?

For me, every film is an interesting experience.

I think cinema is so visually driven now, and people are so taken in by the glamour, gloss and all things good looking that we don't appreciate the craft as much as we used to in the bygone era.

I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

Film is a truly magical medium.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

I can't stop watching black and white movies. I live in a world of Warner Brothers movies and all of that stuff from an older era, and I love them. I still love them. When I look at them, I sometimes think I was born in the wrong time.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're different from a lot of other art forms, but also it makes it seem like when you see the final product, you go, 'I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done this.'

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

There were 10 or 15 years where all the Scandinavian movies were gray and light brown. I got really bored with it. I really felt that movies had to have that life of vivid colors.

I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.