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Michael Apted

"It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working."

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"It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working."

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Amber Hurdle

"The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job."

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Amber Hurdle

"I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots."

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Amber Hurdle

"Anybody can say she's an actress. It's another thing to get a job."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job."

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Amber Hurdle

"The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws."

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Amber Hurdle

"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy."

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Amber Hurdle

"We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks."

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Amber Hurdle

"I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club."

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Michael Apted
"Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it."

History

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Michael Apted
"It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today."

Imagination

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Michael Apted
"For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful."

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Michael Apted
"Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film."

Quality

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Michael Apted
"It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working."

Job

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Michael Apted
"He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists."

Money

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Michael Apted
"When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep."

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Michael Apted
"It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis."

History

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Michael Apted
"Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited."

Music

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Michael Apted
"Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television."

Creativity

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