Mike Figgis Quotes
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.
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This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
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I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.
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Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
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You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
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Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.
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When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather
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One thing I ask you to do, you people who have the pen in your hand, allow God to use you so that you never write anything that will destroy, that will hurt, but always take the trouble to write something beautiful, to help the people to see better, to love better, to come closer... to each other.
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The only real people are the people who never existed.
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Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.
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I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.
