"It was one of those great miracles of……" — Michael Apted
"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 by the Nazis."
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15 Quotes by Michael Apted
Michael Apted has 15 quotes on this site.
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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…
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I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film,…
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I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.
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He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop…
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When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very,…
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So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.
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Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will…
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Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from…
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It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format,…
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Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and…
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For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films,…
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It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that…
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More Britain Quotes
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster…
— David Attenborough
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I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the…
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
— Tony Benn
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we,…
— Tony Blair
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Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
— Tony Blair
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But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the…
— Tony Blair
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Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new…
— Tony Blair
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain,…
— Bono
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I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
— David Bowie
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The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers…
— Bill Bryson
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Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of…
— Bill Bryson
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Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's…
— Julie Burchill
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