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I like to make films about people who changed the lives of others and asserted human dignity.

I think 'E.T.' is a quite extraordinary piece of cinema.

Richard Attenborough

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

Richard Attenborough

I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man: who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.

Richard Attenborough

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

Richard Attenborough

David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.

Richard Attenborough

My main aim in 'Gandhi' was to project him as the vanguard of non-violence. Nowhere in the world has a movement of non-cooperation sans violence received so much support from masses as Gandhi's movement in India did. He was, to a great extent, responsible for freeing his nation from the British Raj.

Richard Attenborough

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

Richard Attenborough

I don't use film in the way that the great auteurs do. I use film, the camera, to record as effectively and as perceptive as I am able what I want to say through the actors.

Richard Attenborough

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

Richard Attenborough

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.

Richard Attenborough

I like to make films about people who changed the lives of others and asserted human dignity.

Richard Attenborough

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.

Richard Attenborough

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

Richard Attenborough

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

Richard Attenborough

You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.

Richard Attenborough

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.

Richard Attenborough

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

Richard Attenborough

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

Richard Attenborough

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

Richard Attenborough

I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.

Richard Attenborough

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.

Richard Attenborough

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.

Richard Attenborough

I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.

Richard Attenborough

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

Richard Attenborough

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

Richard Attenborough

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

Richard Attenborough

I have no great interest in being remembered as a great creative filmmaker.

Richard Attenborough

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

Richard Attenborough

My father thought Gandhi was a great man. I suppose subconsciously, consciously even, I was aware that I wanted to please him and Ma, so I thought doing something like 'Gandhi' would be phenomenal.

Richard Attenborough

The problem is, you see, I've just got so many subjects I want to direct.

Richard Attenborough

In the late 1940s, there weren't any pop stars, and TV didn't exist.

Richard Attenborough

Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.

Richard Attenborough

Throughout my life, I always remember that consideration of people who were less fortunate than we. We lived in an atmosphere of awareness, and we certainly did not live a life whereby we ignored, or felt that we could ignore, that which was in evidence around us.

Richard Attenborough

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.

Richard Attenborough

I'm 4 ft. 2 in. and not exactly a matinee idol.

Richard Attenborough

I know I'm regarded as an establishment figure, but I was crucified by the establishment for 'Oh! What a Lovely War', 'Gandhi' and 'Cry Freedom.'

Richard Attenborough