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 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 novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge. — 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… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
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
