I am not concerned with making esoteric, obscure kinds of films. These are films that can share and talk to anybody about real things.
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I've derived a lot of pleasure and education from the theatre. It's great when audiences really enjoy it. It's part of my life.Mike Leigh
The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.
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The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.
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I'm the opposite of parched.
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There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.
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There is a popular misconception that film-makers have to look to Hollywood to be commercially successful but this is how we have been conditioned.
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