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I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.
Mike Leigh
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Mike Leigh
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 20
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I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.
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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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One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.
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Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.
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I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.
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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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I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.
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People have been very resistant to giving me more than the standard amount of money. So I keep making films on a similar scale. Which is fine, but also frustrating.
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As a general habit and general tendency, I prefer not to bog a piece down with a great number of transitory, contemporary references, because in the end, I'm concerned, not in an abstract way, but an actual way, with creating a world which has a universality to it - even though what goes on is made up of texture and detail, contemporary detail.
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Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker
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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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Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.
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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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The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.
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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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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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The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.
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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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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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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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