Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella, CBEwas a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth6 January 1954
notebook writing expectations
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.
backs chatting dreaming lying might water
We were lying on our backs in the water and chatting away and dreaming of what this play might be like in performance,
address forced lose social
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.
war hero lessons
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.
writing able film
I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write,
stories want way
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.
morning growing-up kids
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!
writing men looks
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.
directors sometimes
Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.
skills long addresses
You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address that.
taken trying would-be
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.
betrayal war childlike
Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.
writing enjoy good-writing
I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.
writing able directors
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.