Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella, CBEwas a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth6 January 1954
films italian
It is my well. I always go to Italian films to be replenished.
address forced lose social
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.
backs chatting dreaming lying might water
We were lying on our backs in the water and chatting away and dreaming of what this play might be like in performance,
needs film life-affirming
I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.
editing film realizing
Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.
feelings sometimes speak
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.
past cinema world
The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.
betrayal war childlike
Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.
notebook writing expectations
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.
writing able film
I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write,
morning growing-up kids
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!
writing boss slave
The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.
passion cds numbers
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.
stories want way
I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.