"No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None.……" — Anthony Minghella
"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."
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24 Quotes by Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella has 24 quotes on this site.
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I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny,…
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I looked around and we were about a mile-and-a-half from land, and I thought, 'OK, I'm going to drown now.'…
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The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day,…
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I am a teller of stories...a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on…
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I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer…
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I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.
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Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.
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You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s…
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When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be…
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There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every…
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As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.
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I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of…
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More Ambitious Quotes
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
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It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
— Michelle Bachelet
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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people…
— Russell Baker
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
— Joseph Addison
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
— Annie Besant
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families.…
— Tom Brady
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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and…
— Jo Brand
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
— Louisa May Alcott
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