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I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.
Mike Leigh
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Mike Leigh
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 20
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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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It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.
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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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