Anthony Minghella Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
-
Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
-
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
-
For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
-
I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
-
I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
-
I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
-
I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
-
I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
-
In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
-
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
-
The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
-
I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
-
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
-
Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
-
Those who go along get along.
-
'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
-
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
-
I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.
-
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
-
Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.
-
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
-
It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling with the federally mandated trigger locks.
-
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.
