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Mike Leigh Quotes

British - Director | February 20, 1943 -

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

Think Sophisticated I Think Cinematic

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.

Life Work Relationship Experience

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.

Good Enough You Bad Cry Will

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

Out Film Every Ever Plays Films

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.

Work Intelligence Resilience Selfish

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

You Film Somebody Should Else Lives

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

Feel You Cinema Like I Feel Much

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.

World Think Cinema Filmmaking Nobody

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.

Time Choices Care You Choice Down

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

Time Head Film Stuff Imagining

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.

Money Me Friends Enough Long You

I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

Good Think Actor Good Actor Going

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