thwn mike leigh has to ask himself a question. is he prepared to bend a little bit?ou do a little more to what the commercial people in the film business want? i think the answer to that question is it's less a matter of... no, i'm not prepared to do that because i think audiences for my work like what that is. but they might like something that is different. yes, but here's the thing. i don't know how many of my films you've actually seen. i'm an old geezer, so i've seen quite a few. we know that they vary considerably. they're not all the same. they all have siblings of characteristics. but they do vary considerably. at one end of the spectrum, you have comedy like abigail's party and stuff. at the other end, you've got things like naked. even that film, which is being released commercially, has got humour in it. it's about lots of things. so, no, in terms of what you're really asking in terms of what i want to make... a space moive. either that or bend a little bit on what you said earlier about the kinds of actors you work with. you work with brilliant actors, th