Mike Leigh Quotes
I think it’s important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
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'Do you promise you won't hurt me?' asked Arthur. 'You will be safe from all harm for the space of a quarter hour, as measured by this clock,' replied the Old One. 'You are mortal enough that I would not slay you like a wandering cockroach, or a Denizen of the House.' 'Thanks,' said Arthur. 'I think.'
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Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.
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So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.
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Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.
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Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or miscalculation, or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
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Saying “I love you forever” won’t hold us together.
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Though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.
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I think it’s important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.
