Quotes by Anthony Minghella - Page 1

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Able
Film
Writing
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I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Book
Good Movie
Notion
Good Movies Bad
Good Movies
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Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Directors
Sometimes
Incredibly
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I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Film
Life Affirming
Needs
Believed
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Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
War
Betrayal
Childlike
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As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Performing
Song
Teenager
Writing
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The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Cinema
Past
World
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Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Children
Cinema
Film
Film-Makers
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Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word 'waiting' by hand it even looks like 'writing.'
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Hands
Waiting
Writing
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I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Good Writing
Good Myself Day
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I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Enjoy
Good Writing
Writing
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Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Editing
Film
Realizing
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You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Skills
Social Skills
Forced
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You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address that.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Addresses
Long
Skills
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I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Able
Direct
Directors
Writing
Myself I Am Never
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[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Artist
Sometimes
Thinking
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The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Belonging
Feelings
Sometimes
Speak
Worthy
Your Me Sometimes
Entirely
Feeling
Me Sometimes Your
Personally
Sensibilities
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My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Enormous
Facts
Formidable
Grandmother
Strong
Life Women Me
Huge Influence
Presence
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There's a great tradition at the BFI of giving fellowships and I thought one of the great jobs that I'd have at the BFI would be to give them out on a regular basis.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Jobs
Giving
Would Be
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I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Girl
Kids
Clever
Achieving
Other Kids
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I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Access
Cds
Denied
Gluttony
Heaven
Numbers
Passion
Music Always Passion
Colours
Types
Vice
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The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Kids
Morning
Cooking
Growing Up
Cafe
Closed
The Problem With
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I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Notebook
Decipher
Expectations
Lasts
Tiny
Writing
Attempts
Expectation
Fill
Invent
Notebooks
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Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Cold
Disparity
Mountain
Produce
Way
Writing
Exactly The Same
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The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
War
Causes
Civil War
Glamorous
Hero
Heroic
Pointless
Ugly
Heroes
Civil
Extract
Futile
Lesson
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No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Ambitious
Appetite
Cold
Hollywood
Mountain
Patient
None
Studio
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I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Stories
Want
Way
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When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
British
Institute
My Time
Taken
Trying
Would Be
Chair
Exists
How Much
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The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Boss
Slave
Writing
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The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Men
Done
Imaginative
Leap
Writing
Work Women Men
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I'm interested in stories which insist on a dog fails-to-eat-dog kind of world. I hate misanthropy, want to believe that there's a possibility that we might all be redeemed, that hope deferred makes the soul sick, that our humanity is fragile, funny, common, crazy, full of the longing for love, the failure of love.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Crazy
Dog
Hate
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I am a teller of stories. A weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather I can stand on my head. I know 7 words of Latin, I have a little magic... and a trick or two. I know the proper way to meet a dragon, I can fight dirty but not fair. I once swallowed thirty oysters in a minute. I am not domestic, I am a luxury and, in that sense, necessary.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Dream
Dirty
Latin
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I looked around and we were about a mile-and-a-half from land, and I thought, 'OK, I'm going to drown now.' And then I started to flail out and panic. I gradually calmed down and I got home. But the reality was that in that moment I was panicking and I feel like that to me was the clue about Ripley, that Ripley constantly finds himself out of his depth in the film and then reacts very, very badly.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Home
Land
Reality
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There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows who Ripley is. We've made careers and lives out of pretending, making things up, inhabiting other people's stories and lives. That's what I do every day. . . . The story is so audacious and subversive: a central character who behaves badly and isn't apparently caught. That intrigued me no end.
Anthony Minghella / Film Director
Careers
Character
Heart
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