If you are playing in ‘Charley’s Aunt,’ and your favourite aunt died that lunchtime, you’ll still have to go on the stage and play ‘Charley’s Aunt.’ Richard Attenborough Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I like to make films about people who changed the lives of others and asserted human dignity. Richard Attenborough Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Richard Attenborough Read Quote
What actually happened with ‘Miracle’ was that someone saw me in ‘Jurassic Park’ and said, ‘We want someone with a white beard – how about him?’ I’ve got a round face, white hair, a white beard. I can wear half-moon glasses and waddle a little, cope with a cane, raise my hat. Richard Attenborough Read Quote
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. Richard Attenborough Read Quote
