Mike Figgis Quotes

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• There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth…
• There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker
• I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being…
• I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.
• I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films…
• The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.
• But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.
• I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.
• I had no plans to be a director.
• I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them…
• Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for…
• Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.
• I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.
• I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
• I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.
• Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see…
• I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.
• Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
• In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation…
• The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony,…

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