"I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good……" — Mike Leigh
"I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films."
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27 Quotes by Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh has 27 quotes on this site.
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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 do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not…
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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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