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The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

~Anthony Minghella

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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.

~Anthony Minghella

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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.

~Anthony Minghella

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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.

~Anthony Minghella

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

~Anthony Minghella

Topics: Always Believed Films Need

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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.

~Anthony Minghella

Topics: Able Am Direct Director Films Found Had Myself Never Out Thought Who Write Writer I Am I Write

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

~Anthony Minghella

Topics: Any Day Enjoy Feel Good Good Writing More Myself Never Than Writing

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As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

~Anthony Minghella

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Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

~Anthony Minghella

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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.

~Anthony Minghella

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: January 6th, 1954

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