Mike Leigh Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 20, 1943

Topics

PoetryYouFindPlaceRelationships

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.

Jimmy Lai

GoodPeopleVoiceMediaYouWill

Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.

John J. McLaughlin

PowerExperienceSexMoreIntense

My goal is to just have options.

Amanda Seales

GoalOptionsJust

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Sophocles

LiveShadowNothingSeeI SeeUs

We are going to have an integrated plan and work closely between commerce and treasury to make sure that we drive growth in this country. Our number one priority is sustained 3-4% GDP.

Steve Mnuchin

WorkGrowthDrivePlanCountrySure

Baby fashion has become such a big thing. It used to be that everything had to be pink or blue or cute - you know, very precious - but not cool. But now, my friends who are mothers really want to dress their kids just like themselves.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

CuteDressBlueBabyCoolFashion

I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.

Jay Mohr

BestMoneyProductNeverFieldPut

I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera and trying to capture it for some future moment. That's always struck me as strange.

Joseph Monninger

FutureSunsetBeautifulMomentMe

You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.

Deborah Ellis

ChangeHopePotentialYouEnemySee

There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.

Arundhati Roy

NothingMoreFictionBeenMadeThan

There's a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.

Peter Senge

FoodThinkAmericanMeaningKids

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

Thomas Szasz

GodYouTalkDeadSchizophrenic

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