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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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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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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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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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.
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But love like that doesn’t just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there’s always a little love left, underneath.Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?
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Like many Americans, I am still haunted by images from the last days of the United States' withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. Newscasts showed South Vietnamese desperately trying to scale the walls of our embassy in Saigon to board the last helicopter flights out of the country. The fear in their eyes was chilling.
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It's flattering to people who stop you and say that you've helped them and all. But, again, you know, you've got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.
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Without Christ there would be no Christmas and without Christ there can be no fulness of JOY.
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...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
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I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.
