I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at ever…

- Anthony Minghella

I am a teller of stories. A weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather I can stand on my head. I know 7 words of Latin, I have a l…

- Anthony Minghella

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

- Anthony Minghella

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 B…

- Anthony Minghella

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 freed…

- Anthony Minghella

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very perso…

- Anthony Minghella

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really a…

- Anthony Minghella

[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

There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows who Ripley is. W…

- Anthony Minghella