Anthony Minghella Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

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

  Anthony Minghella

  Needs, Film, Life Affirming

• 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

  Home, Reality, Land

• I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

  Anthony Minghella

  Writing, Able, Film

  "Minghella left much unfinished" by Steven Zeitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 19, 2008.

• 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

  Editing, Realizing, Film

• 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

  Stories, Want, Way

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 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

  Writing, Directors, Able

  "Minghella left much unfinished" by Steven Zeitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 19, 2008.

• [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

  Artist, Thinking, Sometimes

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• 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

  Taken, Trying, Would Be

  "Abbas Kiarostami". Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

• 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

  Writing, Mountain, Way

  "Down from Cold Mountain". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2003.

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

  Anthony Minghella

  Children, Cinema, Film

  Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.

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