Top 28 Michael Apted Quotes
#1. Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Paulo Coelho
#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. We're just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else.
Ellen DeGeneres
#6. Love is an emotion that recognizes itself in others.
Salman Rushdie
#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
#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
#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
#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
#12. He laughed. 'I thought you said you weren't scared of her.'
'I said I wasn't nervous, and I'm not nervous because I know not to do anything stupid, like make out, for example, in front of my grandma.'
'My fingers touching your fingers is making out?
Jessica Martinez
#13. I wouldn't call myself a woman in bluegrass. I haven't really been a part of the world for a while. It's just been a big influence on who I am today.
Sara Watkins
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.
Michael Apted
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. In my view, compassion takes empathy to another level. With compassion, there is an internal calling to move empathy into action. Compassion is love in action.
Christopher Dines
#21. This is not right, and we must recondition the brain so that each sexual experience is unique, just as each loving experience is unique.
Paulo Coelho
#22. Men's greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women's greatest strength is their facade of weakness.
Warren Farrell
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. We all got ugliness inside us, Kellen. Yours is worse? Then fight harder. Figure it out. But don't you ever pretend you don't have a choice.
Sebastien De Castell
#27. The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.
Denny Hamlin
#28. 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
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