Anthony Minghella Quotes

Anthony Minghella — British Director born on January 06, 1954,

Anthony Minghella, CBE 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... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Anthony Minghella Quotes

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