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One of the reasons the whole hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way i operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in beverly hills.

-Mike Leigh

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One Of The Reasons The Whole Hollywood

Mike Leigh

One of the reasons the whole hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way i operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in beverly hills.

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If you are a kid in beverly hills, (i am not putting down people who live in beverly hills) if that kid knows private school and a credit card... you can't say the kid is taking life for granted. he is taking the life that was given to him.

Drugs are so easy to get in the ghetto. they might not be easy to get in nice areas like beverly hills, but in long beach and compton and south central they're easy to get. they don't drop those drugs off in beverly hills. they drop them off in the ghetto. then they tell us it's wrong to sell them. well, we didn't bring them here. we just sell them. i was selling, like i sold newspapers.

Ask anyone in america where the craziest people live and they'll tell you california. ask anyone in california where the craziest people live and they'll say los angeles. ask anyone in los angeles where the craziest people live and they'll tell you hollywood. ask anyone in hollywood where the craziest people live and they'll say laurel canyon. and ask anyone in laurel canyon where the craziest people live and they'll say lookout mountain. so i bought a house on lookout mountain.

Today washington is our hollywood, the senate our warner bros., the white house our beverly hills. people who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were elizabeth taylor and richard burton.

I do not make films which are prescriptive, and i do not make films that are conclusive. you do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. they're ambivalent. you walk away with work to do. my films are a sort of investigation. they ask questions . . .. sometimes i hear that some [hollywood] studio is interested in me. then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that i have the final cut, and that does it.

There was a place in the hills, on the first ridge in the game reserve, that i myself at the time when i thought that i was to live and die in africa, had pointed out to denys as my future burial-place. in the evening, while we sat and looked at the hills from my house, he remarked that then he would like to be buried there himself as well. since then, sometimes when we drove out in the hills, denys had said: "let us drive as far as our graves.

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