"I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see."

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Source : "Michael Apted Goes from '7 Up' to 007". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 1999.

Michael Apted

“I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do.”
“There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.”
“Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.”
“He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.”
“You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.”
“What are you doing?" "Kneeling before a goddess." "I'm not a goddess." "You are. A goddess, a princess, a queen. As a soldier, I pledge myself to your service. As a prince, I grant you any boon within my power. As a man, I ask to sit at your feet and worship you. Ask me to do anything for you and I will do it.”
“I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.”

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