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Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.
Mike Leigh
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Mike Leigh
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 20
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I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.
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It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.
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I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.
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Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.
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The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.
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Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.
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I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.
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My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky either your relationship works or it doesn't.
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If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.
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I think the camera has got to be motivated. You can't have things arrived at gratuitously. Everything has to have an organic function, but the more comfortable I've become and the more imaginative and sophisticated and the more exploratory I've become at the medium, the more I've subtly deviated away from that in various ways.
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There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.
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Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.
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