Naked

“My favorite Mike Leigh film, one of my favorite films of all time, Naked, with one of the great performances of all time by David Thewlis. Mike Leigh is someone who I just need to bow to quickly because he's defined British filmmaking for the last however many decades. I auditioned for him once and it was a three-hour audition, it was improvised where he just observed you creating a character and living that character. No one's doing it like Mike Leigh.”

“Naked, is that the…? Yeah, it’s a Mike Leigh film with my lovely actress Katrin Cartlidge, who died unfortunately very young, but she was fantastic in that film.”

“Naked, Mike Leigh. Wow. This is something. The drama, the… the acting, and Mike Leigh, how he understands The Human Condition. Fantastic.”

“Naked. Okay. This is one of my favorites. This is David Thewlis at his best. Mike Leigh. I see there’s two editions. I guess I’ll just take both. Such a crush on him from this movie. And Katrin Cartlidge, who’s so amazing, who passed away. But, yeah, don’t watch that, like, if you pick up a skater in Tompkins Square Park... You bring them home. Then the morning after, you think, 'I think this guy’s really gonna get it. They’re gonna love Naked.' You put it on... They don’t have the attention...”

“I just want to point out this movie, if you haven’t seen it, kids: Naked. Extraordinary Mike Leigh film. But all that’s to say we have all of these.”

“Naked, Mike Leigh's Naked. David Thewlis and I worked with him on my first film and obviously I was just like tell me all about Naked. He said he had that overcoat and was running around Soho for about eight months before they even started filming. But there's a speech about the universe and God and this mind-blowing and I think they did something like 57 takes.”

“This is the first Mike Leigh film I ever saw in my life and it just that came out or we were at college didn't it? 93, yes. This kind of defined our time during film degree is British filmmaking but it's just so great. It's such an amazing film. If you're in a council flat that it just kind of it gave you some sort of I don't know it just made you feel good because it's so clever and then you were like wow our poor people down and out like begging in the street can also be smart.”

“I wanted to grab your Mike Leigh stuff because I have Naked on your old laserdisc so I'm going to grab this one and Life Is Sweet. Both films really had a major influence on Tangerine. I know that's hard to see but the whole climactic confrontation at Donut Time comes from this.”

“I have to take Naked, one of my favorite films. It's a crazy beautiful physical film that I want to show my friends.”

“I know everyone's seen this one. I know you've all seen Naked. How incredible is this movie? I can't even tell you the plot. Like if you ask me, 'What's the plot?' I'm like, it's hard to explain, but it's just amazing. I mean, you want to kill the guy, but you love him, you know? I mean, it's nuts.”

“Mike Leigh, Naked, that was also an experience that was very new for me to see that kind of acting that kind of going really to the edge and I met him later because I was with him in the jury in Berlin... I heard and I was talking to him that he did these very long rehearsals which was the opposite of Fassbinder with whom I worked...”

“It's an amazing movie, right? Oh really? Yeah, you don't know it? No, I didn't see that. I haven't seen it either. You haven't guys? Naked. That's why I picked it. Well, you should take it. It's a lot of nudity in it?, this is a good question. Emotional nudity. It's very raw. Very little nudity.”

“This is, you know this? Yeah, that's his best. I agree.”