Mike Figgis Quotes
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.
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Film has to describe and show.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.
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If the money's right, I'll do a film.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
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'Saawariya' was my debut film. It will always be the most special 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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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.
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When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
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It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.
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Generally I just pick music that I like. That's the part I really enjoy: When I get permission for the songs I want and put them into the scenes. It's always hard when you're doing a low-budget film, so it's great when you can get all the music you want to get.
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It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.
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'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
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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.
