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Thinking inside the Box
- Posted at 2:32pm
- 28 September 2007
- by AndrewCollins-RT
I recently asked Mike Leigh if he'd ever consider going back to television. (After all, until the late 1980s, he made his films exclusively for the small screen.) He seemed horrified at the thought - not because it would be a backward step, but because TV had changed so much in 20 years, he said he'd hardly recognise the place.
Although plenty of great film directors learned their craft on television - Sidney Lumet, Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, and more recently, Atonement's Joe Wright and Knocked Up's Judd Apatow - the traffic tends to go in one direction....
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