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… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share
Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered. — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
