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Top 25 Anthony Minghella Quotes (2025 Update)

Anthony Minghella Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella Quote: “My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.”

3. “My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.”

— Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella Quote: “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 an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.”

4. “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 an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.”

— Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella Quote: “Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word ‘waiting’ by hand it even looks like ‘writing.’”

5. “Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word ‘waiting’ by hand it even looks like ‘writing.’”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.”

6. “Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you’re always looking at.”

7. “Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you’re always looking at.”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.”

8. “Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.”

9. “As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella Quote: “I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.”

11. “I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.”

— Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella Quote: “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 everything and I was always 101st!”

12. “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 everything and I was always 101st!”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!”

13. “The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “Of course, like all film-makers I’ve been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.”

15. “Of course, like all film-makers I’ve been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “I don’t hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.”

16. “I don’t hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “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 freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn’t trade it for any other life.”

19. “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 freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn’t trade it for any other life.”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.”

20. “I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.”

22. “The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.”

— Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.”

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

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Anthony Minghella Quote: “There’s a great tradition at the BFI of giving fellowships and I thought one of the great jobs that I’d have at the BFI would be to give them out on a regular basis.”

26. “There’s a great tradition at the BFI of giving fellowships and I thought one of the great jobs that I’d have at the BFI would be to give them out on a regular basis.”

— Anthony Minghella

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