Quotes by Anthony Minghella

About Anthony Minghella:

Anthony Minghella was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.
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You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

Anthony Minghella

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

Anthony Minghella

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 my own attempts to decipher it.

Anthony Minghella

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

Anthony Minghella

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

Anthony Minghella

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 has been an enormous value.

Anthony Minghella

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 make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.

Anthony Minghella

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

Anthony Minghella

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 own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

Anthony Minghella

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 women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at t...

Anthony Minghella

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

Anthony Minghella

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

Anthony Minghella

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 the films that I write.

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Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

Anthony Minghella

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 were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

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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 appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

Anthony Minghella

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 set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

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Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.

Anthony Minghella

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 heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

Anthony Minghella

Author Bio

  • NameAnthony Minghella
  • DescriptionBritish film director, playwright and screenwriter
  • BornJanuary 6, 1954
  • DiedMarch 18, 2008
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Playwright; Film Director; Film Producer; Author
  • AwardsLaurence Olivier Award; Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Academy Award For Best Director; Directors Guild Of America Award