49 Quotes by Anthony Minghella

You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.

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.

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.

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.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

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.

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.

I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.