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."

"The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words."