Don't wait for the perfect opportunity. Take the opportunity and make it perfect.....Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes is a British filmmaker and stage director. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Years Honours List. In 2000, Mendes was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 15 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013). For his work on the London stage, Mendes has received five Laurence Olivier Awards for Company, Twelfth Night and The Ferryman and for his work on Broadway he has earned two Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Play for his work on The Ferryman in 2019, and The Lehman Trilogy in 2022. In film, he made his directorial debut with the drama American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director. He has since directed the films Road to Perdition (2002), Jarhead (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008), and the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). For the war film 1917 (2019), he received the BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, as well as his second Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Most recently, Mendes produced Academy Award nominated film Hamnet. Sam Mendes is currently developing a set of four individual but interconnected films entitled The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event, based on the lives of each of the members of the Beatles.
The meaning behind the quote is there is nothing based on luck. If you want luck, think of an idea to grab it. What I mean is do something to get the results. Be diligent and hard-working, but, at the same time, smart thinking. Balance them all....
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