Able Quote by Anthony Minghella Download Open image “I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.” — Anthony Minghella ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Cinema Direct Film Writing
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing. — Xander Berkeley Copy Share Image
I know I'd like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I'll write it. — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well… — Scott Eastwood Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write and direct films for as long as I can remember. — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way. — Rob Marshall Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except… — Noah Baumbach 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
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world. — Nas Copy Share
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
