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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.
Mike Leigh
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Mike Leigh
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 20
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.
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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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The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.
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Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker
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But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
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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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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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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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It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.
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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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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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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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I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.
Mike Leigh
