“I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotional...” — Mike Leigh Quote

“I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.”

“I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.”

“You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.”

“I came from Hyderabad and didn't know the difference between commercial and parallel cinema.”

“People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.”

“I'm always up for cinema, and then you hear that, actually, the location is in a very cold place with all the attendant discomforts, and TV is much cosier and warmer.”