Michael Winterbottom Quotes

When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you. - Michael Winterbottom

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them. - Michael Winterbottom

We are trying to show what happened to them from their point of view. In the end we are just trying to tell the story as it is. To tell the story of these three people, not to tell the general story. - Michael Winterbottom

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing. - Michael Winterbottom

There's really only three people that should get any prize because of this film and that's the three people whose story it was. - Michael Winterbottom

The starting point was to tell (about) these three people, not to tell the general political situation. All the images you see it's hard to know whether it's deliberate or not, they sort of dehumanize the people there, you don't have any sense of what they're like. - Michael Winterbottom

The film tries to tell their story. We are trying to show what happened to them from their point of view. They are normal people simply caught up in events. - Michael Winterbottom

It's a great honor. There are really three people who deserve to get this prize. And they are the three people who lived through this. - Michael Winterbottom

I'm a fan of music from all over the world. - Michael Winterbottom

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist. - Michael Winterbottom

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