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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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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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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And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
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He was a great friend and will be sorely missed on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Guy was a leading figure in cinema both in the UK and in the United States for over 40 years.
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Guy was a leading figure in cinema both in the U.K. and in the United States for over 40 years, ... I had the most profound respect for his remarkable talent.
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I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
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On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.
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And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.
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In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.
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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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If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.
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What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
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I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.