English - Actor | August 29, 1923 - August 24, 2014
I lived in an atmosphere where Mama brought 60 Basque refugee children to England during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
Richard Attenborough
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'E.T.' depended absolutely on the concept of cinema, and I think that Steven Spielberg, who I'm very fond of, is a genius.
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'Gandhi' was a well-made film but surely not my best. It had flaws, which I understand two-and-a-half decades after I directed it. I will never call it a propaganda film for the Indian Congress, but it could have been made better had I concentrated on certain minute details.
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I know Pandit Ravi Shankar was very upset with me, as I did not use his compositions in 'Gandhi.' I thought that the London Philharmonic Orchestra would prove more effective than his music. It was one of my biggest miscalculations.
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I have no great interest in being remembered as a great creative filmmaker.
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I want to be remembered as a storyteller.
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In the late 1940s, there weren't any pop stars, and TV didn't exist.
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I'm not a great director or an auteur; I'm an ensemble director. I do think I can get wonderful performances out of actors.
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If I were able to write, I probably would. But movies have given me a part of my life where I can express feelings and bring convictions to an audience as if I could write. So I made 'Gandhi' about human relations, prejudice and the empire. In 'Cry Freedom' I expressed my horror and disgust about apartheid.
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The old adage about acting - that it's 98% energy and 2% talent - is true, you know.
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Say what you will about 'Miracle on 34th Street'; I can take my grandchildren to it. If I had a maiden aunt, I could take her, or my ma and pa if they were alive.
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The problem is, you see, I've just got so many subjects I want to direct.
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