Anthony Minghella

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

It's always great to play a character that goes against the grain. Finn defies what people think when they think of stormtroopers.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.