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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.


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MARIANA FULGER She immediately stopped. It was her and that little child there alone.
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SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
SAM MENDES The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w...
SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized.
SAM MENDES I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is...
SAM MENDES It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu...
SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired.
SAM MENDES Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
SAM LEVENSON I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
SAM LEVENSON Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b...
SAM LEVENSON The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an...
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