Anthony Minghella Quotes

Music was a very vibrant ingredient in my life, and I originally saw my early plays as being a format for music.

life music early plays

I feel most at home in America, because everybody there is from another country.

home america feel country

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.

heroes war lesson ugly heroic

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

writer lose social skills

It is rather embarrassing how quickly we made the list

made

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.

women life

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

movies

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.

method work