The Talented Mr. Ripley Quotes

“Because I didn’t have a decent jacket. Because I thought it was better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.”
― Anthony Minghella, The Talented Mr. Ripley: A Screenplay

“This is the real Ripley, the lover of beauty, inspired by art, by antiquity. He’s awed. He’s cold. He so much wishes he weren’t alone.”
― Anthony Minghella, The Talented Mr. Ripley: A Screenplay

“She imagined Ripley sitting at the typewriter with her as she wrote her novel. I imagined her sitting with me as I wrote my screenplay.”
― Anthony Minghella, The Talented Mr. Ripley: A Screenplay

“The screenplay, obliged to work in its own right, is both an argument with the source material and a commentary on it.”
― Anthony Minghella, The Talented Mr. Ripley: A Screenplay

“Adaptation for film is, by definition, a process of editorializing.”
― Anthony Minghella, The Talented Mr. Ripley: A Screenplay