The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.

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Anthony Minghella CBE (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British film director playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.