Apted Michael Quotes

#1. Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course ... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

Michael Apted

#2. So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

Michael Apted

#3. I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

Michael Apted

#4. It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

Michael Apted

#5. It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.

Owen Hart

#6. The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring
all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims ... for what?

Steven Erikson

#7. I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

Michael Apted

#8. It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

Michael Apted

#9. One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

Michael Apted

#10. Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.

Michael Apted

#11. Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

Michael Apted

#12. I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

Michael Apted

#13. He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.

Michael Apted

#14. It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working.

Michael Apted

#15. Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

Michael Apted

#16. Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

Groucho Marx

#17. I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.

Michael Apted

#18. When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.

Michael Apted

#19. A false vision was better than none.

Martha Ostenso

#20. There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

John Christopher

#21. The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

#22. If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

William Shakespeare

#23. For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.

Michael Apted