"I do not make films which are prescriptive,……" — Mike Leigh
"I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some [Hollywood] studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it."
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27 Quotes by Mike Leigh
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Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker
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Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins,
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I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things…
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There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.
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The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to…
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It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.
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I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is…
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But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
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But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you're not snooping into somebody else's lives?
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Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was…
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I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.
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The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is…
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You hated him in the movies! Now you're ambivalent.
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Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.
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America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
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Real love isn't ever ambivalent,
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The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public…
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Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up…
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Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt,…
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Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do…
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When asked at age 7 whether he had ambivalent feelings about girls. No, I hate 'em!
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The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest.
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The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the…
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