Mike Newell
Mike Newell
Michael Cormac "Mike" Newellis an English director and producer of motion pictures for film and television. Newell won the 1994 BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Four Weddings and a Funeral...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth28 March 1942
characters moments tiny
Tiny moments like that will keep the characters alive.
romantic
Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh.
great starting work
I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.
love particular paul since wonderful work
I have a particular love of an actor that I did work with, oddly, in 'Donnie Brasco,' who has since become a wonderful talent: Paul Giamatti. I would love to do a whole movie with Paul Giamatti.
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When you make step one, you have to make step two, otherwise you are discredited. It looks to me as if he knows what he is talking about but it's down to him.
decision late leave seriously until
We will leave the decision until as late as possible. But right now he is seriously doubtful.
habit plan
We're not in the habit of getting beat. And it is not something we plan on getting used to.
match saturday tough
We had a very tough match on Saturday but they are all tough matches.
act acting bring challenge kids life somebody tells themselves
When the kids were small, you had to tell them what to do, ... But now that they're older, you have to challenge them. They have to improvise. They have to bring themselves into it. Otherwise, it doesn't have any life in it. They had to act , and acting is not doing what somebody tells you.
book famous single
What he said was 'You must read the book and if you find a way of doing the book, then you must tell us what that is. You mustn't come because it's a franchise. You mustn't come because it's the most famous children's film that's ever been. You mustn't come for this that and the other reason. You've got to be able to see how to make a 750-page book into a single movie,'
excuse game saturday
They had a game on Saturday as well as we did so we can't use that as an excuse.
chances south
If you are going to do a film about the South Pole, the chances are that you will film it in Hawaii! Whatever is most difficult, you will get to do it.
bad maybe people terrific
What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.
children
It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.