Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at. Anthony Minghella More Quotes by Anthony Minghella More Quotes From Anthony Minghella 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. Anthony Minghella notebook expectations writing The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life. Anthony Minghella boss slave writing 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. Anthony Minghella able writing directors I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day. Anthony Minghella enjoy good-writing writing Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered. Anthony Minghella sometimes directors 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 taken would-be trying As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs. Anthony Minghella teenager writing song 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 cds passion numbers I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies. Anthony Minghella notion good-movie book 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 mountain writing way [Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them. Anthony Minghella artist sometimes thinking
