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But films should be voyeurist...

But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you're not snooping into somebody else's lives?

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

Given the events of even the ...

Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

I try and create for the audi...

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

Given the choice of Hollywood...

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

I'm old enough to have friend...

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 71 quotes

Life is about luck and it's a...

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.

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

I think Michael Caine is a pe...

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 71 quotes

I mean, artistic processes ar...

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 71 quotes

My work is about life as you ...

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.

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

Film-makers should remain tru...

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.

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

I think it's important that n...

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 71 quotes

The whole thing about making ...

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

He's [Constable] a great pain...

He's [Constable] a great painter as far as it goes, but I don't think he's remotely interesting. Not really. It's very pretty and it's very thorough, but it's not evocative, it's not dramatic, it doesn't do what Beethoven does - it doesn't shake you down to the roots of your soul, which Turner does. Constable is just very nice, basically. And moving on to personality, Constable was a very dull character.

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

It's an unhealthy habit to sa...

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

My work requires acting at it...

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

I've long since stopped worry...

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.

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

I feel very much ideologicall...

I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

It creeps up on you and becom...

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

I've walked out of films. But...

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

But actually I make films tha...

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

Mike Leigh 71 quotes

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