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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 19 quotes by Anthony Minghella Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The English Patient (1996). In addition, he received three more Academy Award nominations; he was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for both The English Patient (1996) and The... Read full biography of Anthony Minghella → 1 2 Ctrl → 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. 0 The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very... → 0 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.... → 0 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... → 0 I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often... → 0 I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day. 0 Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells... → 0 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... → 0 As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs. 0 Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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