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I want to tell stories which ...

I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

I looked around and we were a...

I looked around and we were about a mile-and-a-half from land, and I thought, 'OK, I'm going to drown now.' And then I started to flail out and panic. I gradually calmed down and I got home. But the reality was that in that moment I was panicking and I feel like that to me was the clue about Ripley, that Ripley constantly finds himself out of his depth in the film and then reacts very, very badly.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

I am a teller of stories. A w...

I am a teller of stories. A weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather I can stand on my head. I know 7 words of Latin, I have a little magic... and a trick or two. I know the proper way to meet a dragon, I can fight dirty but not fair. I once swallowed thirty oysters in a minute. I am not domestic, I am a luxury and, in that sense, necessary.

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

The problem with growing up in...

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

Once you start to realize that...

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

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great ...

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

There's a great tradition at t...

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

The BFI exists to celebrate al...

The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

There's this sense of being st...

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

Waiting is part of writing. Wh...

Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word 'waiting' by hand it even looks like 'writing.'

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

I'm interested in stories whic...

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

I want to tell stories which r...

I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

I work fitfully, in hope rathe...

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 41 quotes

I looked around and we were ab...

I looked around and we were about a mile-and-a-half from land, and I thought, 'OK, I'm going to drown now.' And then I started to flail out and panic. I gradually calmed down and I got home. But the reality was that in that moment I was panicking and I feel like that to me was the clue about Ripley, that Ripley constantly finds himself out of his depth in the film and then reacts very, very badly.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

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

It is my well. I always go to ...

It is my well. I always go to Italian films to be replenished.

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

We were lying on our backs in ...

We were lying on our backs in the water and chatting away and dreaming of what this play might be like in performance,

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

You know you lose a lot of soc...

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 41 quotes

I have always believed that th...

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

Anthony Minghella 41 quotes

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