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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.


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SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love...
SAM NEILL As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
SAM NEILL When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T...
SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain...
SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i...
SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
SAM NEILL Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ...
SAM MENDES It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi...
SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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