Mike Leigh Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.

  Mike Leigh

  Insecure, Acting, Needs

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

• The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.

  Mike Leigh

  Acting, Actors, Way

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

• The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.

  Mike Leigh

  Acting, Actors, Useless

  Source: www.believermag.com

• My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

  Mike Leigh

  Selfish, Resilience, Acting

  "Mike Leigh: 'Creativity is a life-blood for people'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2011.

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