Anthony Minghella Quotes

Today, they make films where you have to sit for an hour and a half and watch somebody in the process of dying and, for me, that's rather depressing. Films, in the good old days of the golden age of Hollywood, used to want to inspire people and give them uplift. You're paying good money to see a film, and you don't want to leave depressed!

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

I don't know if 'Crash' is a good movie or not because I didn't set out to make a movie. Really, what I wanted to do is more of a social experiment.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living.

I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are a lot of films out there made by people who are genuinely trying to make a change.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone.

The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.

I am not born to make dreamy movies.

If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked.

There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.

I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.

I love uplifting television.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

Every video I've made has an inspirational message behind it. Since day one, I thought, 'Okay, I want my audience to be, like, Disney members.' So if that's the case, I have to keep everything rated G.

'12 Years A Slave' is a film that is beautifully shot, wonderfully acted, and told in a compelling manner. However, there are some questions, in my opinion, as to its importance. Paramount among those questions is, What does this scenario illustrate that we didn't know or haven't seen before? And why does such a film garner such popularity?

'Zero Dark Thirty' raised the stakes. It raised the stakes in cinema, man. I don't think people really know how to grasp what type of film this is.

I want to do things or write things that make people feel a bit more beautiful or tragic or something because there are so many other things than just funny.

I don't want to do films for the fun of it.

Some movies are entirely too heavy, and some movies have no meat in them.

A film is not a vehicle to accuse, or to relay a specific message. If we reduce a film to this, we lose all hope for cinema to ignite a richer conversation.

There are faith-based movies that some people don't consider good, but every time it comes to the scene where someone's life is changed, that still affects me.

I want my films to offer wholesome entertainment and not be my personal showreels.

I want to be associated with films that are content-oriented.