Anthony Minghella Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Anthony Minghella quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased director born on Jan 6, 1954). These are the last 9 out of 19 quotes we have for him.
“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.”
“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.”
“As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.”
“Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.”
“I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.”
“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!”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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