H. S. Leigh Quotes

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

I take no notice of the trends. It has never concerned me at all. My job is to deal with what I want to deal with and reach an audience by doing so.

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.

You can't make a movie about the artist without shooting outdoors.

People have been very resistant to giving me more than the standard amount of money. So I keep making films on a similar scale. Which is fine, but also frustrating.

I have to get out of bed every day to make something happen.

I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet.

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.

I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.

There is a great tradition of independent filmmaking in the U.S. that I absolutely respect. There's some wonderful stuff that comes out in this country against all the odds.

Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.

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.

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.

The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.

I don't know what the character is going to be. We sit down and we create a character, and all of the characters in all of my films are made like that.

My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.

In the first place, I'm pretty thorough about whom I choose. I instinctively look for the kind of actor who is going to be trusting. There are all kinds of insecure people out there called actors.

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

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.

Ria snorted. “Leo’s pride rarely leaves the plains. What are they supposed to mate? The zebras?

Yes, Elizabeth.” Dash kept his voice low, but let it rumble with his arousal. “I lived for you and Cassie. But while I fought to live I dreamed, and it was this I dreamed of.

I need you more than I need freedom.

You don't change what you love or you never loved it to begin with.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

I love you, Anya,” he said. “You are my soul.

Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went

He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself.

Let's not get naughty. How about homicidal instead?

I am yours," he whispered. "I live to hold you, Risa. I breathe to touch you.

It's a good thing I'm a reasonably patient woman. Otherwise, I might have to kill you.

Hmm, that's not sexual harassment, baby. When I decide to get sexual, trust me, you'll know it. ~ Braden ~

Don't worry, Mrs. Colder. For the most part, we keep him leashed and gagged. We only let him free when the cute little animal jokes are needed. ~Sherra Callahan (on Kane Tyler)~

It can happen like that. It can build slowly. It can come like a gentle rainfall, or it can slam into you like a tsunami. You are my tsunami, love.

Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits." -David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme-

Take my heart with you, baby girl. It follows you....always.

You are my mate, Ria. In my soul. You are my mate. ~ Mercury

What am I going to do with you? I have suggestions, but this might not be the place for them.

Her head throbbed as though gremlins were ripping holes in her brain

I am not in the least forbidden. You may sample me all you choose.

Maybe I want to be tied down and forced to admit it

Sweetheart, all men are animals. Feed us, pet us, and use a firm hand, and we'll worship at your feet.

Let the past not be forgotten. Let the lessons not be in vain.

I've never walked the same path other people found comfortable and I'm not going to start now.

I say, when Mercury arrives, we just pretend we’re not here.” Lawe tipped back his whiskey and swallowed in a single drink. “Stay real quiet. Don’t make eye contact.” They all nodded.

Life too short to spend alone.

I didn't promise I wouldn't break your tender heart, Mica. Protect it from me. Don't let me touch that part of you. Don't let me destroy both of us that way.

Yes, he would be gone, but she knew now what it meant to love. She might not know what it meant to be loved, but loving was almost as good.

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.