Anthony Minghella Quotes

"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

"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

"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

"I feel most at home in America, because everybody there is from another country."
-Anthony Minghella

"The Talented Mr. Ripley."
-Anthony Minghella

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

"It is rather embarrassing how quickly we made the list."
-Anthony Minghella

"We were outside on this movie every single day so we were hostages to the weather."
-Anthony Minghella