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“The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.”

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Mike Leigh

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

“Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer than raw emotion and raw feeling. I think the best writing does that too. Untamed passion basically results in bad writing or bad polemics, which so many writers and public intellectuals are vulnerable to.”

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“The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.”

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“I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.”

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“I think the Buddha presents an image of someone who believes in self-control. I think he's offering, perhaps, a critique of the romantic idea of the passions being this wonderful source of life or vitality that define you or your writing.”

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Author:Pankaj Mishra

“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.”

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“You can't make a movie about the artist without shooting outdoors.”

Artist Shooting

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“People have been very resistant to giving me more than the standard amount of money. So I keep making films on a similar scale. Which is fine, but also frustrating.”

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“So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world and it has not been done before and only you can do it. Without these feelings, many writers would not be able to write anything at all.”

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Author:Pankaj Mishra

“If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.”

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