That’s what Mike Leigh, the 82-year-old director of such classics as High Hopes, Secrets and Lies, Topsy-Turvy, Career Girls, and Mr. Turner says when a journalist meeting him for an interview ...

there are 10 possible films there, really. [Narrator] This is Mike Leigh. with his actors over months of research and ...

“There is nothing as full-bodied, creative, and terrifying as working on a Mike Leigh project,” says Jean-Baptiste. “You get to use all of your imagination in a way that’s not usually ...

‘We can all deliver a speech” brags a 19th-century argumentifier, one of many crowding Mike Leigh ... musical youth displayed the first blush of political consciousness. Leigh demonstrates ...

It seems the same can be said of picking movies, as collaborators Mike Leigh and ... actor/director pair, Leigh recalled being exposed to a great deal of westerns in his youth, with world cinema ...

Mike Leigh's new film, "Hard Truths," can be tough stuff. Pansy Deacon is a middle-aged housewife living in London suburbs and always seems about to explode. She harangues her grown son ...

The writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny ‘Hard Truths’ wasn’t scripted in any conventional sense. “Everything was created on ...