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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Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.
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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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As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.
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Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
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What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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By 2014, the war in Afghanistan will be over.
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You can know that the final show is coming up, and prepare yourself for it mentally, but when it finally occurs, it's like a dream. You stand there feeling the love the audience has for you, and you think, 'Is this really going to end?
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I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.
