Mike Leigh: Making Plays

00:00:36 -I don't take sugar, Mrs Butcher. -All right.

00:04:02 the social aspirations of his characters are dangerously exposed.

00:07:36 where I have in any way specifically, gone back to that particular background.

00:11:21 And apart from the fact that I then learnt about visual things,

00:14:01 -LEIGH: Playing? -Playing, I think,

00:16:42 So, the kind of work where the actor does the person

00:20:37 but at the same time there was also a kind of smoothness.

00:24:21 Ann is upset.

00:27:24 who will never ever make a concrete suggestion.

00:31:46 it was an opportunity to try out

00:37:07 the guy I based it on was absolutely nothing like

00:40:08 My teeth are in sparkling condition, Kevin.

00:43:24 "You know, when things go wrong."

00:45:59 -You know... -What sort of exercises?

00:48:39 FINGER: Hey, what happens if we get the wrong tent?

00:52:03 The funniest thing, the funniest one of those that happened

00:54:49 so during the course of this taxi journey,

00:58:06 What?

01:01:34 one went to each person with a long list of questions,

01:04:53 Great, great. Go for it, man. Do it. Do it.

01:07:58 Mr Butcher!

01:10:37 Of course, the two things about...

01:14:23 Don't drink anything else.

01:19:03 Oh, dear.