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Richard Attenborough

"Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique."

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"Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique."

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"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."
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"I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject."
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"David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands."
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"I prefer fact to fiction."
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