Richard Attenborough Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.”

“If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.”

“I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.”

“I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.”

“And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.”

“What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.”

“Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.”

“I'm a passionate trade unionist.”

“I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.”

“I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.”