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.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire for creativity and innovation rather than repeating past successes.
Sam Mendes emphasizes the importance of exploration and creativity in his work, indicating that he wishes to avoid stagnation by relying on the same techniques and styles used in previous films. This perspective encourages continuous growth and the pursuit of new artistic directions instead of settling into a comfortable routine.
In practice
This quote can be used in a film production meeting to encourage the team to think outside the box.
There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.
Learn to say, “I don’t know the answer.” It could be the beginning of a very good day’s rehearsal.
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?
Perhaps it is no surprise I became an entertainer because many of my relatives were natural performers. Dad, who had a fine pair of lungs, was master of ceremonies at East Ham working men's club in east London. I felt so proud when I saw him in his white gloves calling out the names of the dances.
I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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