My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.
From Mike Leigh
There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.
Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.
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.
It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.
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.
It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.
But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.
But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you're not snooping into somebody else's lives?
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