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Mike Leigh Quotes

«Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.»
Author: Mike Leigh
«There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.»
Author: Mike Leigh
«I've derived a lot of pleasure and education from the theatre. It's great when audiences really enjoy it. It's part of my life.»
Author: Mike Leigh
«The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.»
Author: Mike Leigh
«I am not concerned with making esoteric, obscure kinds of films. These are films that can share and talk to anybody about real things.»
Author: Mike Leigh
«I'm the opposite of parched.»
Author: Mike Leigh
«jumping out of an airplane without a parachute.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Mike Leigh
«It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.»
Author: Mike Leigh
«There is a popular misconception that film-makers have to look to Hollywood to be commercially successful but this is how we have been conditioned.»
Author: Mike Leigh