"The whole thing about making films in an……" — Mike Leigh
"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."
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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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More Accidents Quotes
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
— Aristotle
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
— Saint Augustine
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
— Lauren Bacall
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and…
— Neal Barnard
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
— Roseanne Barr
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Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
— Dave Barry
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
— Joe Barton
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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