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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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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Film has to describe and show.
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The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
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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 come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
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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 thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.
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If we have a chance to upgrade, we're going to have to do it, ... This roster's going to have to be much stronger one through 25. Hopefully we have some credibility from our past, but our present isn't too attractive. I hope they still want to come to San Francisco and understand this is a one-year step back.
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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.
