Richard Attenborough Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

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

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

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

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

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.

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

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

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

I prefer fact to fiction.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

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

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.

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

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

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

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

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