Michael Apted Quotes

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• 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 set…
• 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, land,…
• I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.
• 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 you're…
• When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be,…
• So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.
• Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because…
• Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work,…
• 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…
• It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded…
• Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.
• For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is…
• It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness…
• 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 than…
• 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 particularly…

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