Mike Leigh Quotes
One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
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All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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I'm quite an advocate of free trade.
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Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
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The fantasy I've always had is that somehow I could move back in time. I would like to be there when Susan B. Anthony was dying, or someone like that. I would say to her, 'You won't believe what's going to happen.' And then I would tell her.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
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In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
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The roughest road often leads to the top.
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I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.
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I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.
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It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
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One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.
