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Mike Figgis

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

— Mike Figgis music

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

— Mike Figgis history

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 that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

— Mike Figgis success

You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.

— Mike Figgis war

The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

— Mike Figgis humor

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 to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

— Mike Figgis beauty

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

— Mike Figgis die

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

— Mike Figgis life

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 needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

— Mike Figgis art

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, the more you can do with that.

— Mike Figgis music

Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

— Mike Figgis time

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

— Mike Figgis desire

I had no plans to be a director.

— Mike Figgis

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

— Mike Figgis play

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

— Mike Figgis art

I want the score to have a really big voice.

— Mike Figgis real

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

— Mike Figgis world

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

— Mike Figgis love

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

— Mike Figgis drama

There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

— Mike Figgis thought

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

— Mike Figgis music

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 more user-friendly and efficient.

— Mike Figgis work

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 able to move forward as a filmmaker.

— Mike Figgis war

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

— Mike Figgis time

Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.

— Mike Figgis lie

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