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The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character. — Mike Leigh

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

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things. — Mike Leigh

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

Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable. — Mike Leigh

The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly. — Mike Leigh

The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work. — Mike Leigh

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood. — Mike Leigh

The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic. — Mike Leigh

I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen. — Carmen Ejogo

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist. — Mike Leigh

Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten. — Mike Leigh

I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema. — Mike Leigh

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins. — Mike Leigh

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame. — Mike Leigh

I take no notice of the trends. It has never concerned me at all. My job is to deal with what I want to deal with and reach an audience by doing so. — 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. — Mike Leigh

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

Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker — 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. — Mike Leigh

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker. — Mike Leigh

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

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic. — Mike Leigh

The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles. — 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. — Mike Leigh

You can't make a movie about the artist without shooting outdoors. — Mike Leigh

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England. — Lesley Manville

I HAVE TO GET OUT OF BED EVERY DAY TO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN. — Mike Leigh

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays. — Mike Leigh

I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet. — Mike Leigh