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. ↗

— Michael Apted

#britain #enigma #great #history #invaded

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

— Michael Apted

#course #days #early #especially #germ

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. ↗

— Michael Apted

#because #been #better #change #doing

I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see. ↗

— Michael Apted

#doing #films #gets #i #interested

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. ↗

— Michael Apted

#anxieties #budget #did #different #feel

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. ↗

— Michael Apted

#conceive #creative #credited #direct #directors

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. ↗

— Michael Apted

#because #become #between #digitally #edit

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do. ↗

— Michael Apted

#creating #documentaries #i #i do #more

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them. ↗

— Michael Apted

#i #i can #i do #move #out