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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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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You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
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God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.
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The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
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When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.
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I don't think 'Call Of Duty: Black Ops' sells 25 million plus copies and makes of a billion dollars because of their great storytelling. It's the multiplayer aspect of that type of game, where people get together to shoot each other and have fun. And it's very much gameplay; it's like 'Gran Turismo' or one of these racing games.
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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.
