The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes,… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I don't know what the character is going to be. We sit down and we create a character, and all of the… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
What I do is to collaborate with each actor and work one-on-one to create a character. And that is a matter of… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I make films because I am endlessly fascinated by people. I'm fascinated immediately to know about the lives that are going on… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
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… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I did sit in cinemas as a kid looking at English and American movies thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if the characters… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame. — Mike Leigh Copy Share
The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character. — Mike Leigh Copy Share
Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood. — Mike Leigh Copy Share
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… — Mike Leigh Copy Share
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… — Mike Leigh Copy Share
I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things… — Mike Leigh Copy Share
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… — Mike Leigh Copy Share
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… — Mike Leigh Copy Share
I take no notice of the trends. It has never concerned me at all. My job is to deal with what I want to… — Mike Leigh Copy Share
A lot of the reasons that I'm resistant to making films in the U.S. have nothing to do with not doing a film in… — Mike Leigh Copy Share
But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you're not snooping into somebody else's lives? — Mike Leigh Copy Share
I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all you have… — Mike Leigh Copy Share
People have been very resistant to giving me more than the standard amount of money. So I keep making films on a similar scale.… — Mike Leigh Copy Share
But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic. — Mike Leigh Copy Share
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for… — Mike Leigh Copy Share
![“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…” quote by Mike Leigh](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7ec/mike-leigh-9087_character_he-s-constable-a-great-painter-as-far-as_2708924.png)
