Mike Leigh and Lynne Ramsay Interview

...when you film a real event, it exists whether you film it or not. But you turn it into something else by the action of filming it. And what we do is have that sense of it being an actual living moment, beyond it merely being the function of a narrative.

In the Guardian Unlimited Mike Leigh and Lynne Ramsay interview each other and have a great conversation about their films and filmmaking. Some great insight from two distinctive filmmakers.