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Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.

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Anthony Minghella

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

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I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

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I'm interested in stories which insist on a dog fails-to-eat-dog kind of world. I hate misanthropy, want to believe that there's a possibility that we might all be redeemed, that hope deferred makes the soul sick, that our humanity is fragile, funny, common, crazy, full of the longing for love, the failure of love.

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I am a teller of stories. . . a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head. I know seven words of Latin. I have a little magic and a trick or two. I know the proper way to meet a dragon, can fight dirty but not fair, and once swallowed thirty oysters in a minute. I am not domestic. I am a luxury, and in that sense, necessary.

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You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address that.

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No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain. ' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient. ' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

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