Mike Leigh Quotes
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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 -
The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
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 -
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 -
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 -
A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
Iain Glen
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I've done a lot of TV, but not film.
Manny Montana -
Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.
Irwin Winkler
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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 -
My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.
Drew Barrymore -
The choices that we make aren't always perfect but it's ok... It's part of the journey.
Hayley Williams Paramore -
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
Pope Francis -
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
Enoch Powell -
The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.
Chuck Hogan
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In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.
Marilyn Monroe -
The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.
David Mitchell -
By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.
Seth Lloyd -
I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.
Mike Leigh