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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.
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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I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.
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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.
Mike Leigh
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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I don't know what the character is going to be. We sit down and we create a character, and all of the characters in all of my films are made like that.
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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.
Mike Leigh
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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Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.
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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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Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker
Mike Leigh
But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
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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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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.
Mike Leigh
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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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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There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.
Mike Leigh
The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.
Mike Leigh
Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.
Mike Leigh
I think it’s important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.
Mike Leigh
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.
Mike Leigh
