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Quote by Mike Leigh

“I have to get out of bed every day to make something happen.”

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Mike Leigh is a renowned British screenwriter and director, born on February 20, 1943 in London. His works are known for their profound social insight and unique narrative style, having received multiple BAFTA and Academy Award nominations. more

“Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I definitely miss that sense of being a disinterested reader who's reading purely for the pleasure of imagining his way into emotional situations and vividly realized scenes in nineteenth-century France or late nineteenth-century Russia.”

Way Want Writing Purpose Reading Pleasure Situation Century Missing Emotional Reader Scene Late Russia France Related Nineteenth Century Disinterested Utilitarian

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.”

Knows Needs Kind Might Certain Actors Acting Insecure Parameters

Author:Mike Leigh

“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.”

Together Jobs Film Actors Secure Working Together Ensemble

Author:Mike Leigh

“As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is the ultimate home for that sense of ambiguity.”

Humans Home Voice Fiction Communication Perception Ultimate Impulse Novelists Multiple Ambiguity Nuance Multiplicity

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.”

Reason Able Film Actors Secure

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.”

Ifs Actors Process Cases

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.”

Way Feels Actors Asks Acting Situation Notion Responding

Author:Mike Leigh

“I feel the responsibility of the novelist is to create a very complex world populated by very complex individuals and to deepen that as much as possible. I don't think the responsibility of the reporter or journalist is fundamentally different.”

Thinking World Feels Different Individual Responsibility Complexes Journalist Novelists Reporters

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.”

Kind Actors Acting Useless Cerebral

Author:Mike Leigh

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