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Anthony Minghella

"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."

 

"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."

 

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

 

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

 
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