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Anthony Minghella Quotes
Anthony Minghella Quotes
Anthony Minghella
British
Director
Born:
Jan 6
,
1954
Always
Cold
Me
Own
Writing
You
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I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.
Anthony Minghella
Films
Always
Believed
Need
As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.
Anthony Minghella
Music
Writing
Teenager
Songs
Obsessed
Performing
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
Invent
Expectation
Own
My Own
Rather
Week
Attempts
Methods
Than
Often
Tiny
Decipher
Which
Notebooks
Fill
Last
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
Will
Own
Types
Colours
Because
Access
Always
Gluttony
Denied
Listen
Heaven
Vice
Number
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
Day
Morning
Business
Cooking
Every Day
Cafe
Problem
Parents
Big
Year
Closed
Every
Kids
Never
Up
The Problem With
Worked
Growing
Growing Up
Night
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
Girl
First
Clever
Other
Other Kids
Everything
Kids
Always
Still
Were
Very
Five
Than
Achieving
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
Me
Women
Strong
Value
My Life
Enormous
Has-Been
Rather
Fact
Been
Huge
Very
Huge Influence
Influence
Formidable
Grandmother
Presence
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
Me
Women
Writing
World
Men
Difficult
Way
More
Look
Leap
Well
Because
Around
Always
Been
Than
Done
Wanted
Them
Imaginative
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
You
Patient
Cold
Out
Tells
No-One
Studio
None
Ambitious
Mountain
Wanted
Hollywood
Really
English
Appetite
Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.
Anthony Minghella
You
Sometimes
Incredibly
Make
Being
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
Anthony Minghella
Good
Books
Good Movies
Bad
Only
Make
Hold
Movies
Notion
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