Mike Leigh Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.”

“But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you're not snooping into somebody else's lives?”

“Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.”

“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.”