95 Quotes by Richard Attenborough

And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.

I prefer fact to fiction.

If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, "This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state."

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.