Mike Leigh Quotes
My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.
Quotes to Explore
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.
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From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.
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White lies keep social dignity intact and are far more prevalent than most people realize. Several studies have found that an average person is lied to from 10 to 200 times a day - mostly just to keep a conversation going, to avoid conflict, or to establish a connection with someone.
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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
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She waited for him to explain a universe in which there was so much injustice.
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Πρὸς κέντρα μὴ λάκτιζε.
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I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.
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The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.
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The great jazz radio stations have a duty to continue evolving their format just as audiences ask the musicians to evolve. How do you do that with a form of music that has 100 years of recorded history? How do you also keep it contemporary so you don't isolate your listeners? These are major questions.
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I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.
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I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together.
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There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.
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My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.
