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.

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• Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

  

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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.

  

  Larry Bird
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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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• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
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• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

  

  Daisy Bates
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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.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
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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.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.

  

  A. R. Rahman
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• Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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  • Style
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• I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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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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• Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.

  

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• I've always wanted to keep my foot in film as well as theatre and be working in both worlds.

  

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• It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.

  

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• For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

  

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• If somebody is smoking a joint in a movie, I say it's a cigarette - a big cigarette if it's a Cheech and Chong movie.

  

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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.

  

  Mike Figgis
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  • Musician