The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that its not all about characters, relationships and themes, its also about place and the poetry of place. Its about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. – Mike Leigh
My work is about life as you and I experience it. Youre either lucky or youre not lucky either your relationship works or it doesnt. – Mike Leigh
My work requires acting at its most committed – it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesnt work for narcissistic or selfish actors. – Mike Leigh
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. – Christopher Alexander