Anthony Minghella > Quotes

“I am a teller of stories...a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head. I know seven words of Latin. I have a little magic and a trick or two. I know the proper way to meet a dragon, can fight dirty but not fair, and once swallowed thirty oysters in a minute. I am not domestic. I am a luxury, and in that sense, necessary.”
― Anthony Minghella, Jim Henson's The Storyteller

“The screenplay, obliged to work in its own right, is both an argument with the source material and a commentary on it.”
― Anthony Minghella, The Talented Mr. Ripley: A Screenplay

“You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.”
― Anthony Minghella, The English Patient: A Screenplay

“She imagined Ripley sitting at the typewriter with her as she wrote her novel. I imagined her sitting with me as I wrote my screenplay.”
― Anthony Minghella, The Talented Mr. Ripley: A Screenplay

“Adaptation for film is, by definition, a process of editorializing.”
― Anthony Minghella, The Talented Mr. Ripley: A Screenplay

“Because I didn’t have a decent jacket. Because I thought it was better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.”
― Anthony Minghella, The Talented Mr. Ripley: A Screenplay

“This is the real Ripley, the lover of beauty, inspired by art, by antiquity. He’s awed. He’s cold. He so much wishes he weren’t alone.”
― Anthony Minghella, The Talented Mr. Ripley: A Screenplay