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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.

~Anthony Minghella

Topics: Access Always Because Colours Denied Gluttony Heaven Listen Music Number Own Passion Types Vice Will Cds

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The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

~Anthony Minghella

Topics: Big Business Cafe Closed Cooking Day Every Every Day Growing Growing Up Kids Morning Never Night Parents Problem The Problem With Up Worked Year

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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!

~Anthony Minghella

Topics: Achieving Always Clever Everything First Five Girl Kids Other Other Kids Still Than Very Were

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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.

~Anthony Minghella

Topics: Been Enormous Fact Formidable Grandmother Huge Huge Influence Influence Life Me My Life Presence Rather Strong Value Very Women

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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.

~Anthony Minghella

Topics: Always Around Because Been Difficult Done Imaginative Leap Look Me Men More Than Them Wanted Way Well Women Work World Writing

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No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

~Anthony Minghella

Topics: Ambitious Appetite Cold English Hollywood Mountain None Out Patient Really Studio Tells Wanted You

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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.

~Anthony Minghella

Topics: Cold Costs Disparity Exactly Exactly The Same Film Huge Look Make Market Mountain Novel Produce Room Same Set Way Write You

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

~Anthony Minghella

Topics: Being Incredibly Make Sometimes You

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

~Anthony Minghella

Topics: Bad Books Good Good Movies Hold Make Movies Notion Only

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: January 6th, 1954

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