"Anthony Minghella", Order of the British Empire/CBE was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.

He won the Academy Award for Best Director for The English Patient (film)/The English Patient (1996). In addition, he received three more Academy Award nominations; he was also nominated for Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay/Best Adapted Screenplay for both The English Patient (film)/The English Patient (1996) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (film)/The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and was posthumously nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture/Best Picture for The Reader (2008 film)/The Reader (2008).

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You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

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When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.

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The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

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I feel most at home in America, because everybody there is from another country.

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The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

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The Talented Mr. Ripley.

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

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It is rather embarrassing how quickly we made the list.

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We were outside on this movie every single day so we were hostages to the weather.

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