Mike Leigh Quotes

The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

Mike Leigh

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• I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Films

• In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Training
  • Japanese
  • Watch

• Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Food
  • Simple
  • Spices

• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Important
  • House

• One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Period

• I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Washington
  • Civility
  • Levelheaded

• I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Parenting

• My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Up
  • Help
  • Age

• The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

  

  O. Henry
  • True
  • Fate
  • Unknown

• When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • College
  • Young
  • Fans

• I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Sleep
  • Which
  • Debilitating

• I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Want
  • Paris
  • Granddaughter

• Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Age
  • Strength
  • Old Age

• It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Funny
  • Party
  • Chance

• It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Love
  • Wind

• It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Hero
  • Playing
  • Thrill

• When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

  

  John McGahern
  • Attitude

• There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees

• Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.

  

  John Wozniak
  • School
  • High
  • College

• You don't have to go to Harvard to figure out that the Big East is the best league in the country. You don't have to be a genius. A dummy like me can figure that out. When I look at my coach of the year candidates, Jamie Dixon is in my top five. Jamie has done a fantastic job. He has lost some heartbreakers on the road, but that's because winning on the road in the Big East is so difficult. They've been able to win at home. And that's the key when you play in a tough league. You better win your home games.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Country
  • Done
  • Home

• Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • May
  • Justice
  • Guilty

• The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Problem
  • Film
  • Industry