Mike Leigh Quotes

I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.

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• I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Film
  • Unknown

• Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Me
  • Film

• My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Skills

• The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Film
  • Characters
  • Industry

• Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Literature

• I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Film
  • Limitations
  • My Own

• Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Honor

• When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Film
  • Moment
  • Fantasy

• The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Journey
  • Destiny
  • Source

• A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Film
  • Budget

• I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Business
  • Film
  • Skills

• My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Dream
  • Words

• All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Journey
  • Comfortable
  • Source

• Life is wonderful beautiful journey. Every episode of my life is like a dream, and I am at peace and happy with what life has given me.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Dream

• I've done a lot of TV, but not film.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Done
  • Film
  • TV

• Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Film
  • Involved
  • Project

• The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Experience
  • Journey

• I would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a slapstick comedy.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Long
  • Night
  • Comedy

• I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Guy
  • Black
  • Wife

• The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Idea
  • Fact
  • Florida

• I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even if it's a sad poem, if it's an angry poem, a political poem or anything at all. The fact that you're taking the time and energy to pick up this thing and hold it to the light, and say, "Let's take some time to consider this," means that you've deemed it worthy enough to spend time on - which, in my opinion, is celebrating.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Political

• I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Film
  • Journey