21 Quotes by Richard Attenborough
- I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.
- I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.
- I'm a passionate trade unionist.
- If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.
- In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.
- Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
- There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
- Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.
- And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
- Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.
- I prefer fact to fiction.
- I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
- I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
- I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.
- I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.
- I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.
- I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.
- David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.
- And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.
- What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
- At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.
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