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The feeling of not belonging,...

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 41 quotes

There's a great tradition at ...

There's a great tradition at the BFI of giving fellowships and I thought one of the great jobs that I'd have at the BFI would be to give them out on a regular basis.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

I'm interested in stories whi...

I'm interested in stories which insist on a dog fails-to-eat-dog kind of world. I hate misanthropy, want to believe that there's a possibility that we might all be redeemed, that hope deferred makes the soul sick, that our humanity is fragile, funny, common, crazy, full of the longing for love, the failure of love.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

Betrayals during war are chil...

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

There's this sense of being s...

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. We've made careers and lives out of pretending, making things up, inhabiting other people's stories and lives. That's what I do every day. . . . The story is so audacious and subversive: a central character who behaves badly and isn't apparently caught. That intrigued me no end.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

The best thing about writing ...

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 freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

I never feel more myself than...

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

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

You know, you lose a lot of s...

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.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

I was one of five very clever...

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!

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

The imaginative leap for me o...

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 the world.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

Once you start to realize tha...

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

Look at it this way: if you w...

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.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

I never feel more myself than...

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

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

The problem with growing up i...

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 41 quotes

When I became the chair of th...

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 41 quotes

No studio in Hollywood wanted...

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 41 quotes

I always listen to music, my ...

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 41 quotes

The only lesson to extract fr...

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 41 quotes

My grandmother was a huge inf...

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 41 quotes

I had never thought of myself...

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.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....