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Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.

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My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

Facts, Grandmother, Influence, Presence, Strong

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.

Boss, Day, Entirely, Freedom, Slave, Writing

I am a teller of stories. . . a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head. I know seven words of Latin. I have a little magic and a trick or two. I know the proper way to meet a dragon, can fight dirty but not fair, and once swallowed thirty oysters in a minute. I am not domestic. I am a luxury, and in that sense, necessary.

Dirty, Dream, Fair, Latin, Luxury, Minute

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.

Blinkered, Directors, Incredibly, Make, Sometimes

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.

Betrayal, Childlike, Compared, Peace, War

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.

Crazy, Dog, Funny, Hate, World

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.

Feelings, Personally, Sensibilities, Sometimes, Speak, Worthy

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.

Able, Directors, Films, Thought, Writer, Writing

I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

Day, Enjoy, Good, Good Writing, Writing

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.

Emotion, Require, Stories, Want, Way

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.

Case, Film, Money, Taken, Trying, Would Be

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

Looks, Market, Mountain, Produce, Room, Writing

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.

Access, Cds, Number, Numbers, Passion

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

101St, Achieving, Clever, Girl, Girls, Kids

I looked around and we were about a mile-and-a-half from land, and I thought, 'OK, I'm going to drown now. ' And then I started to flail out and panic. I gradually calmed down and I got home. But the reality was that in that moment I was panicking and I feel like that to me was the clue about Ripley, that Ripley constantly finds himself out of his depth in the film and then reacts very, very badly.

Home, Land, Moment, Panic, Reality

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

Book, Good, Good Movie, Make, Movies, Notion

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.

Looks, Men, Way, World, Writing

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.

Careers, Character, Creative, Heart, Making, Ripley

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.

Artist, Beckett, Make, Sometimes, Think, Thinking

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

Believed, Film, Films, Life Affirming, Needs

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