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Quote by Ben Mendelsohn

“There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.”

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Ben Mendelsohn

Ben Mendelsohn, born on April 3, 1969, is an accomplished Australian actor renowned for his exceptional performances in both film and television. He has gained widespread recognition and acclaim for his roles in various projects. more

“I grew up looking at... going to the movies a lot, as much as they'd let you. I grew up in Manchester in the north of England in the '40s and '50s. I saw a lot of movies. They were all Hollywood and British movies. I didn't see a film that wasn't in English until I was 17 when I went to London to be a student.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Author:Mike Leigh

“There have always been and there always will be the peripheral sideline activities which are a form of entertainment, which is to say you pay a couple of cents and you see something freakish. That is what reality TV is.”

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Author:Mike Leigh

“I make films because I am endlessly fascinated by people. I'm fascinated immediately to know about the lives that are going on around me. That is what drives me. And that is because everybody matters, everybody is there to be cared about, everybody is interesting and everybody is the potential central character in a story. Judging people is not acceptable.”

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Author:Mike Leigh

“For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what I do is what other artists do, painters, novelists, people that make music, poets, sculptors, you name it. It's about starting out and working with the material and discovering through making, working with the material the artifact.”

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Author:Mike Leigh

“I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

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