Mike Figgis Quotes
The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L.A.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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When you're younger, you worry about so many things that you don't need to worry about, like image, appearance.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
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I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
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In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
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I think it'll be an emotional day. It'll be exciting for me, mostly it'll be exciting for them. I'm not going to get to come here a lot, so, it'll be a special day, hopefully.
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I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.
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Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work!
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Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions - they lead to defeat
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I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.
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The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.
