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.
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,
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.
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.
heart character careers
There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows who Ripley is. We've made careers and lives out of pretending, making things up, inhabiting other people's stories and lives. That's what I do every day. . . . The story is so audacious and subversive: a central character who behaves badly and isn't apparently caught. That intrigued me no end.
taken trying would-be
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.
writing able directors
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.
dog crazy hate
I'm interested in stories which insist on a dog fails-to-eat-dog kind of world. I hate misanthropy, want to believe that there's a possibility that we might all be redeemed, that hope deferred makes the soul sick, that our humanity is fragile, funny, common, crazy, full of the longing for love, the failure of love.