Top 24 Apted Quotes

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

Michael Apted

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

Michael Apted

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#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

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#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

Apted Quotes #1725571
#5. I love to be nervous before a scene.

Kim Basinger

Apted Quotes #1619337
#6. I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

Paul Cezanne

Apted Quotes #1534726
#7. Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

Georges Bataille

Apted Quotes #1332365
#8. 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

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#9. 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

Apted Quotes #1293349
#10. 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

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#11. 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

Apted Quotes #1173088
#12. 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

Apted Quotes #1113182
#13. I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Apted Quotes #46588
#14. 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

Apted Quotes #948969
#15. 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

Apted Quotes #948821
#16. 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

Apted Quotes #914124
#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

Apted Quotes #476379
#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

Apted Quotes #476338
#19. I'd seen the movie 'Paranormal Activity' and was convinced for weeks that it was real.

Lauren Stamile

Apted Quotes #441312
#20. How did you ever come to like a common blacksmith?"
"The word is 'love', Perrin Aybara.

Robert Jordan

Apted Quotes #223691
#21. 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

Apted Quotes #179031
#22. I have time only for cricket, and when I am not playing, I love to be at home, chat with my family, do puja with them, call for some yummy paani puri, etc. Also I love to cook. I can make dal, sabji and chicken! But, at home everybody's a vegetarian, so I can't cook non-veg at home!

Suresh Raina

Apted Quotes #169599
#23. 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

Apted Quotes #129155
#24. Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.

Valerie Simpson

Apted Quotes #68492

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