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
thinking people judgement
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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I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.
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Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.
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I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.
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I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.
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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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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.