“I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the...” — Sam Mendes Quote

I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.

It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.

I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

Although our rules and laws are now officially colorblind, they operate to discriminate in a grossly disproportionate fashion.