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There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. every writer, every actor, every director knows who ripley is. we've made careers and lives out of pretending, making things up, inhabiting other people's stories and lives. that's what i do every day. . . . the story is so audacious and subversive: a central character who behaves badly and isn't apparently caught. that intrigued me no end.
-Anthony Minghella
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There's This Sense Of Being Strange, Which

Anthony Minghella
There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. every writer, every actor, every director knows who ripley is. we've made careers and lives out of pretending, making things up, inhabiting other people's stories and lives. that's what i do every day. . . . the story is so audacious and subversive: a central character who behaves badly and isn't apparently caught. that intrigued me no end.
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