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
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Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.
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Peer-to-peer technology has benefits, but it also carries many dangers, the most egregious of which is the potential for widespread and unauthorized piracy. Without the permission of the author of the work, who will be able to tell when personal use ends and piracy begins? It is the fundamental question of what is fair and right for the creators and those who made that creation possible.
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Michael Apted is a true leader -- in this guild, in the industry and in his craft. His passion, diligence and integrity serve as an inspiration and a model for all our members.
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Bob's devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we do it was a special gift to his fellow directors,
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One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.
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devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we do it was a special gift to his fellow directors.
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? devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we do it was a special gift to his fellow directors.
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Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.
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This deal marks the first of many to come and illustrates how, by working together with producers, we will achieve agreements that are mutually beneficial.
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I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.
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When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.
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Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.
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Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.
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It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.