Actor Quotes by Mike Leigh

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

— Mike Leigh

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

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

— Mike Leigh

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

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

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things…

— Mike Leigh

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

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

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

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

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

— Mike Leigh

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