"There are plenty of bad actors and there……" — Mike Leigh
"There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough."
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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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