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

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.

Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.

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

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.

He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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