"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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Source : "Mike Leigh at the NFT". Interview with Derek Malcolm, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2002.

Mike Leigh

#Character Quotes #Location Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?”
“The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside -- such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.”
“It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is the great collective iniquity begetting all individual iniquities.”
“Etch out the future on your own design.”
“I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God.”

Source : "Slay Ride". Interview with John La Briola, www.westword.com. July 22, 2004.
“I have crossed over to a place where I never thought Iâ€™d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.”
“All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning”

Source : Dmitri Volkogonov (1998). “Trotsky: Eternal Revolutionary”, Simon and Schuster
“What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven't seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there's some great battle sequences. It's my favorite book. Carlisle is holding on to that humanity. He doesn't want to be a vampire.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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