“But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?” IfsShouldFilmSnooping Author:Mike Leigh
“I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.” IfsFeelsCinema Author:Mike Leigh
“It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.” IfsWantLife IsHabitUnhealthyRubbishWant To Be Happy Author:Mike Leigh
“When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.” PeopleIfsThinkingRealCharacterFilmYoungUsedActorsCinema Author:Mike Leigh
“If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.” IfsFilmWalksPiecesFailingBored Author:Mike Leigh
“Very occasionally I hire an actor and get it wrong. The actor just doesn't trust the process or me as fully as I thought they would. In this case, you can be quite sure that if an actor is untrusting, it's got nothing to do with me or the process.” IfsActorsProcessCases Author:Mike Leigh
“I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.” IfsWayHas BeensWonderClassCapableScriptsConventionalProcrastinatorConventional Ways Author:Mike Leigh
