Mike Leigh Quotes

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

Mike Leigh

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• Film
• Spirit
• Accidents
• Location

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• It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Path

• I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • People
  • Believe
  • Ahead

• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Art
  • Pain
  • Best

• I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Country
  • Chinese
  • Blood

• I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Looking Forward
  • Shah Rukh Khan

• I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • World
  • Real
  • War

• Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Technology

• When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • American
  • Story
  • Original

• Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on being invisible. So in other words, stuff just would sync and appear. You change your contacts on one of your devices, and it would appear on all your devices changed.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Words
  • Change
  • Cloud

• We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Walk

• I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Outside

• What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Community
  • Back

• I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Interesting
  • Most
  • Parts

• No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• I'd love to have more kids. I'm one of four, and I've always dreamed of having a huge family. I've loved every second of having Sophia. It's been just the most amazing time of my life. I'd love more of it.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Live
  • Training

• The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself into whatever character it is. They can be very different types of characters, but at the heart of it, I always wanted to be a very, very believable and rooted in reality. One of the ways of doing that is to root it as much as you can in your own experiences and then tint those with different hues, different colors to give the different characters their way.

  

  Tobias Menzies
  • Character
  • Reality
  • Way

• The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Happy

• If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Star

• The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Character
  • Film
  • Spirit