Mike Leigh Quotes
I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.
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Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I choose to express myself.
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I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
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I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
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There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.
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I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.
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Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. I try to shift the frame in which people think about poetry from being distant or "sacred" to being more human, because then I think it becomes easier to feel like poetry belongs to us, is for us, is from us.
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I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.
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I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.
