It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and… — 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
