Author: Mike Leigh

Quotes

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

- Mike Leigh

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

- 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.

I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

- Mike Leigh

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

- Mike Leigh

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

- Mike Leigh

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

- Mike Leigh

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

- 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.

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.

- Mike Leigh

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