I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

The Met's production has been transmitted live into movie theaters worldwide on March 7 2008 part of the Met's HD series and is now available on DVD. It is completely false. John's Portsmouth.

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.