Richard Attenborough Quotes

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.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

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.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

I prefer fact to fiction.

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, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

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

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

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

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.

On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.

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

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.

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

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

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.

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.

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