Sam Mendes
  • I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

  • I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

  • The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

  • I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

  • I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.