Simon and Mike feel as they’re as perfect a producer/director team as you could find. This is partly because they share both a sense of purpose and a sense of humour, but mostly because Simon has no pretensions to be a director or an ideas man, and Mike has no desire to be his own producer!

“Simon is brilliant at raising money, putting all the elements in place, and overseeing and guiding the whole operation. He sees his job as being to create the safe space for me to make my films freely and without interference. Of course, he’s always there with helpful, sympathetic advice when I need it, but he’s never intrusive. He’s just fantastically supportive.” [Mike Leigh]

Simon loves Mike’s work, and totally respects his approach. And over the years they have built up around them a talented and loyal team of fellow workers.

(Of course, Simon develops and produces many other films that have nothing to do with Mike Leigh. All such projects are through his other company, Potboiler Productions, which you can find on www.potboiler.co.uk)

This entry was posted is filed under Biography, History. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.