Anthony Minghella Quotes

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

Feeling, Sometimes, Speak

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

Music, Writing, Songs

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

Sometimes, Incredibly

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

Music, Passion, Heaven

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

Good, Movies, Bad

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

Thought, Able, Write

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

Films, Believed

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

Good, Writing, Enjoy

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

Everything, Kids, Five

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

Work, Hope, Writing

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

Same, Write, Film

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

Life, Women, Strong

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

Wanted, Patient, Cold

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

Child, Since, Cinema

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

Work, Women, Men

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

War, Nothing, Ugly

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

Morning, Business, Parents

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

Time, Money, Trying

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

Alone, Long, Lose

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Nationality: British

Born: January 6, 1954

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