Mike Leigh Quotes
But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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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.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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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.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
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My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
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It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
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We'll probably look at the film tomorrow and see some real good things, but right now we're our own worst enemy.
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It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button.
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I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street is unreliable. It's no more unreliable than that. You can find the truth on the street if you work at it. I don't think of the Internet or the virtual as being inherently inferior to the so-called real.
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That was how it was designed. It wasn't a last resort. It was designed to be a run.
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But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?
