Anthony Minghella Quotes

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• I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies…
• I looked around and we were about a mile-and-a-half from land, and I thought, 'OK, I'm going to drown now.' And then I started to…
• The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of…
• I am a teller of stories...a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head. I know seven…
• I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct…
• I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.
• Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.
• You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address that.
• 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 to…
• 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.…
• As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.
• I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I…
• I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
• I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.
• I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls…
• 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…
• My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life…
• 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…
• Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.
• The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have…

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