Mike Leigh Quotes

I grew up looking at... going to the movies a lot, as much as they'd let you. I grew up in Manchester in the north of England in the '40s and '50s. I saw a lot of movies. They were all Hollywood and British movies. I didn't see a film that wasn't in English until I was 17 when I went to London to be a student.

Mike Leigh

Quotes to Explore

I am a Buddhist.

Orlando Bloom
- Buddhist
In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

Felicity Kendal
- Great
- God
- Different
Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.

Octavia Spencer
- People
- Worry
- Perception
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Edith Wharton
- Critics
- Others
- Rather
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
You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?

Walter Payton
- Life
- Game
- Mistake