Mike Figgis Quotes

• There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

  Mike Figgis

  Ideas, Film, Failing

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

  Mike Figgis

  Humorous, World, Tragic

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• 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 were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.

  Mike Figgis

  Hollywood, Firsts, Film

  Mike Figgis (2012). “Digital Film-Making”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• I never had any urge or desire to do like a big spectacular movie with thousands and thousands of extras. I'd rather watch paint drying. But put me in a room with three people having a hard time, like a character situation, and then you're into a really intense portraiture kind of concept.

  Mike Figgis

  Character, Hard Times, People

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• The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

  Mike Figgis

  Cameras, Movement, Storytelling

  Mike Figgis (2012). “Digital Film-Making”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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

  Mike Figgis

  Sadness, Thinking, Giving

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• 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.

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  Vegas, Leaving, Trying

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• Me gusta trabajar con mi cámara como si fuera un instrumento musical.

  Mike Figgis

  Musical, Cameras, Instruments

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• 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

  Plot, Actors, Made

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• 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

  Sound, Harmony, Psychological

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• 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.

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  Musician, Singers, Way

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• 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.

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  Mirrors, Development, Way

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• 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.

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  Eight, Years, Missing

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

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  Movie, Strong, Desire

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• It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

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  Healthy, Actors, Agents

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• 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

  Musical, Littles, Film

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• Una de las cosas que más me gustan del cine es la variedad.

  Mike Figgis

  Cinema, Things I Love, Range

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

  Mike Figgis

  Done, Ashamed

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

  Mike Figgis

  Drama, Film, Accidents

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• I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

  Mike Figgis

  Guitar, Play, Piano

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• 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

  Moving, Loss, Lost Friendship

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• You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.

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  Player, Interesting, Trying

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

  Mike Figgis

  Apology, People, Trying

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• 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

  Theatre, Film, Periods

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• I had no plans to be a director.

  Mike Figgis

  Directors, Plans

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