Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBEwas an English actor, film director, film producer, entrepreneur, and politician. He was the President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Artand the British Academy of Film and Television Arts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth29 August 1923
CityCambridge, England
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David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.
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Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.
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I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
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I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
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I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
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I want to be remembered as a storyteller.
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When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.
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I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.
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At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.
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I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.
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I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.
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I prefer fact to fiction.
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Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
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Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.