It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today. — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them. — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things. — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see. — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air,… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television. — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
