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Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker
Mike Leigh
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Mike Leigh
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 20
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I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.
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The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.
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When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.
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There have always been and there always will be the peripheral sideline activities which are a form of entertainment, which is to say you pay a couple of cents and you see something freakish. That is what reality TV is.
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Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.
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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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I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
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I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.
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My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.
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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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The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.
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