15 Mike Leigh Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mike Leigh

British Director

Born: Feb 20, 1943

Film Films Life Long Will You

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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

You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know. Mike Leigh

You Will Long Films Out Find Structured Long Period Over Know Period Camera Very Any Improvising Anywhere Elaborate Worked Hardly

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

Experience Try Relates Something Audience Create

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

Integrity Will Become Own Our Danger Compromise Colonial Remain Never True Maintain Industry Principles Real Revival Hollywood Should Film Servants Film Industry Film-Makers British Need

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

You Out Obsession Becomes Up Movies Million Watching Creeps

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

Me Integrity Long Important Everyone Worrying Press About Since Knows Because Greatest How Ultimately Stopped Who Portrayed

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

Eyes Given Steel Poking Pins Prefer Hollywood Choice

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

Events Inevitable Given Israel Century Even

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

Think Films Cinematic Extremely Sophisticated Make Actually

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

Good You Will Enough Plenty Bad Directed Directors Badly Cry Because Always Material Being Good Actors Who Actor

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

Every Films Out Walked Film Ever Plays

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

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film. Mike Leigh

Time Head Developing Stuff Film Imagining

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