29 Quotes by Michael Apted

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.

The DGA is forever on the front lines, protecting our creative and economic rights and fending off threats to our livelihoods such as runaway production, piracy, and the theft of intellectual property. I am honored to be standing on the front lines with this Guild, and look forward to continuing my work as president.

I’d love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.

When I joined Granada – which, you don’t want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time – the BBC was firmly asleep.

I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn’t really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

I’ve never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.