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Michael Apted — British Director born on February 10, 1941,

Michael David Apted, CMG is an English director, producer, writer and actor. He is one of the most prolific British film directors of his generation, and directed the Up Series of documentaries and the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough... (wikipedia)

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working.

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