Anthony Minghella Quotes (4 quotations)
1. But I also think there are lots of incredible directors out there who can direct screenplays, who know what it is to animate other people's writing. I don't have that experience and I don't know if I have that skill. I think it's a very different skill from directing your own work. I'm enormously respectful of those directors who know how to respect the writer and still leave their signature on their movies. - Anthony Minghella
2. It's very unlikely that I'll direct anyone else's screenplay in the future, because I think it's inappropriate, ultimately, for the director to trample on the vision of the writer, or to try and appropriate that vision. It's forcing material into places where it naturally doesn't want to go, forcing a genre perhaps to accommodate more than it's able to. - Anthony Minghella
3. Perhaps that I'm not as good at making studio films as I am at making my own films, and that there's something to be said for nursing my own passions, wrongheaded or otherwise, and reconciling myself to my own voice. One of the things that we all struggle with is, first of all, identifying what our voice is, and then reconciling ourselves to it because often we want to be other filmmakers, other directors, other writers. This instinct to try to be somebody else, to try and trade in your voice for one that you admire more, is one that you ultimately have to resist. - Anthony Minghella
4. Well, one is to make peace with your own voice. That's one thing I've learned. The other one is that perseverance furthers, as the Chinese say. Your will is your best ally. If you try to second guess what will work, you're lost. The minute you surrender your taste to the taste of others, it's over. It's the deaf ear and the hearing ear; you have to have one ear that is so wide open to advice and to other people's wisdom, and one ear that is so deaf to invasion. It's just learning whom to let in the deaf ear and whom to let in the hearing ear, and that's a trick I don't think any of us ever learn. - Anthony Minghella
2. It's very unlikely that I'll direct anyone else's screenplay in the future, because I think it's inappropriate, ultimately, for the director to trample on the vision of the writer, or to try and appropriate that vision. It's forcing material into places where it naturally doesn't want to go, forcing a genre perhaps to accommodate more than it's able to. - Anthony Minghella
3. Perhaps that I'm not as good at making studio films as I am at making my own films, and that there's something to be said for nursing my own passions, wrongheaded or otherwise, and reconciling myself to my own voice. One of the things that we all struggle with is, first of all, identifying what our voice is, and then reconciling ourselves to it because often we want to be other filmmakers, other directors, other writers. This instinct to try to be somebody else, to try and trade in your voice for one that you admire more, is one that you ultimately have to resist. - Anthony Minghella
4. Well, one is to make peace with your own voice. That's one thing I've learned. The other one is that perseverance furthers, as the Chinese say. Your will is your best ally. If you try to second guess what will work, you're lost. The minute you surrender your taste to the taste of others, it's over. It's the deaf ear and the hearing ear; you have to have one ear that is so wide open to advice and to other people's wisdom, and one ear that is so deaf to invasion. It's just learning whom to let in the deaf ear and whom to let in the hearing ear, and that's a trick I don't think any of us ever learn. - Anthony Minghella
