102 Quotes by Mike Leigh

Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker

There is a popular misconception that film-makers have to look to Hollywood to be commercially successful but this is how we have been conditioned.

jumping out of an airplane without a parachute.

I've derived a lot of pleasure and education from the theatre. It's great when audiences really enjoy it. It's part of my life.

I am not concerned with making esoteric, obscure kinds of films. These are films that can share and talk to anybody about real things.

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.

One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.

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

Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.