49 Quotes by Anthony Minghella

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.

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.

It is my well. I always go to Italian films to be replenished.

We were lying on our backs in the water and chatting away and dreaming of what this play might be like in performance,

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write,

I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.

You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address that.

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.

Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word 'waiting' by hand it even looks like 'writing.'