When the British filmmaker Mike Leigh was 6, his father, a doctor who opposed his son becoming an artist, told him to quit drawing pictures of people.
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LEIGH: That’s an interesting question because it won’t surprise you if I say there isn’t anything I’m not interested in when it comes to human behavior. If you mean that it’s something I identify with, yes, I do. But it would be untruthful if I said that’s what I had in mind. In fact, it probably never occurred to me until this conversation that there are bits of me in the thing you’re talking about. What is for sure is that, like everybody, I know Pansys of one kind or another.
AP: Many scenes capture how people, in stores and parking lots, respond to Pansy's irritability. The same could be said of audiences getting to know a difficult protagonist. Did you consider how moviegoers would respond to her? LEIGH: Yes. The world is full of Pansys. People live with other people’s conditions. They don’t think about it being something wrong with them that needs to be treated. It’s how she is and it’s a damn nuisance, a drag, it pisses them off. It’s a running condition of awfulness. People don’t go around, mostly, thinking: My relation has a mental condition that needs to be treated.
AP: Do you feel at all let down by the festivals? Cannes and Venice reportedly passed on “Hard Truths.”
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