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I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.

~Mike Leigh

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There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

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Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.

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The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

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The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.

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Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.

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It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

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I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

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You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.

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Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: February 20th, 1943

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