“I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.” IfsFeelsCinema Author:Mike Leigh
“The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.” WayFeelsActorsAsksActingSituationNotionResponding Author:Mike Leigh
“A lot of the reasons that I'm resistant to making films in the U.S. have nothing to do with not doing a film in Hollywood, but rather to do with what I'm committed to working on in the U.K. I feel very committed to the British film industry and infrastructure.” FeelsReasonFilmIndustryHollywoodCommittedBritishInfrastructureFilm IndustryBritish Film Author:Mike Leigh
“I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the audience won't understand it;" "let's not make the girls wear corsets, because it's not sexy" and all that sort of thing. Gradually it disintegrates into a no man's land: you don't really believe it's a period scene and it doesn't feel like it's now because it's not now. You don't feel it's quite real and you don't believe in it.” MenFeelsBelieveRealFilmHateGirlLanguageAudienceLandPeriodsSceneI HateDon't BelieveSexyContemporaryPlentyCorsets Author:Mike Leigh
