Art Elitist Quotes by Richard Attenborough

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

— Richard Attenborough

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in…

— Richard Attenborough

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

— Richard Attenborough

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

— Richard Attenborough

And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our…

— Richard Attenborough

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

— Richard Attenborough

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

— Richard Attenborough

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

— Richard Attenborough

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large…

— Richard Attenborough

When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be…

— Richard Attenborough

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

— Richard Attenborough

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

— Richard Attenborough

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

— Richard Attenborough

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring…

— Richard Attenborough