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Anthony Minghella Quotes

«Music was a very vibrant ingredient in my life, and I originally saw my early plays as being a format for music.»
«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 feel most at home in America, because everybody there is from another country.»
«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.»
«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. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.»
«I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.»
«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.»
«We were outside on this movie every single day so we were hostages to the weather.»
«It is rather embarrassing how quickly we made the list,»
«The Talented Mr. Ripley»