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There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.


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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...
SAM LEVENSON When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ...
SAM LEVENSON You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
SAM LEVENSON One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your im...
SAM LEVENSON Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' c...
SAM LEVENSON It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
SAM LEVENSON We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got t...
SAM LEVENSON I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
SAM LEVENSON Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
SAM LEVENSON Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
SAM LEVENSON If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her l...
SAM LEVENSON You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all...
SAM LEVENSON I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
SAM KINISON