Mike Figgis Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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If the money's right, I'll do a film.
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
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I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
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'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'
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I'm a very open person. I know I open my mouth way too much, but I just do that.
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If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.
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After doing STAR TREK for so many years, to do just regular makeup is such a treat. Just put some makeup on and "thank you very much," you're on your way.
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He could not endow men with great power and wisdom; He could not make them excellent in majesty and glorious in might, swift as the winds or the lightning to do His will, until they had passed the danger of abusing His gifts, and so falling as the sinful angels had done before them.
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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.
