Michael Apted
Michael Apted
Michael David Apted, CMGis an English director, producer, writer and actor. He is one of the most prolific British film directors of his generation, and directed the Up Seriesof documentaries and the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth10 February 1941
documentaries type caribbean
I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.
britain enigma great history invaded machines
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.
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The DGA is forever on the front lines, protecting our creative and economic rights and fending off threats to our livelihoods such as runaway production, piracy, and the theft of intellectual property. I am honored to be standing on the front lines with this Guild, and look forward to continuing my work as president.
change technology
For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.
slowness
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.
moving documentaries i-can
So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.
war world want
I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.
artist trying agendas
He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.
war sea land
I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.