"But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you're not snooping into somebody else's lives?"

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Source : "The Auteur, The Voyeur: Mike Leigh Talks". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2010.

Mike Leigh

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“He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something he felt but could not describe: porous and spiky, shifting with flecks of thought, with urge and memory; salted with brightness, flickerings of white and green and pale gold; something that loved stars because it was made of the same substance.”
“It is [every womanâ€™s] right to ignore the dictates of fashion and dress in a manner that is becoming to her own character and personality.”
“Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.”
“Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be looking at a future in which this iconic species is wiped out.”
“There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.”
“We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.”
“All fires burn out at last.”

Source : Sigrid Undset (1927). “The cross”
“The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.”

Source : "Note on a Quaternion Transformation", Communication read on Monday, 6th April, 1863, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, p. 117, 1866.

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