Richard Attenborough

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

— Richard Attenborough

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed…

— Richard Attenborough

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

— Richard Attenborough

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

— Richard Attenborough

And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms…

— Richard Attenborough

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

— Richard Attenborough

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

— Richard Attenborough

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

— Richard Attenborough

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost…

— Richard Attenborough

When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not…

— Richard Attenborough

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

— Richard Attenborough

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

— Richard Attenborough

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

— Richard Attenborough

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with…

— Richard Attenborough

On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.

— Richard Attenborough

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

— Richard Attenborough

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person…

— Richard Attenborough

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

— Richard Attenborough

I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the…

— Richard Attenborough

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

— Richard Attenborough

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come…

— Richard Attenborough

If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity…

— Richard Attenborough

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

— Richard Attenborough

David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the…

— Richard Attenborough