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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If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.
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My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.
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All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom.
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The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up dying. So she bought her defiance with her death. The real question I ended up asking was, "What would it mean for Antigone to have stood up to Creon and lived?" And the only way she could have lived is if she had had a serious social movement with her. If she arrived with a social movement to take down the despot, maybe it would have taken 18 days only, like in Egypt. It's really important to be able to re-situate one's rage and destitution in the context of a social movement.
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It's really important for us to keep the best player in the city of Louisville here every year. I see Henderson right in line with Michael Bush, Brian Brohm, Mario Urrutia and Earl Heyman. He continues that tradition. His movement and maturity give him an opportunity to compete early for a spot to play. He's got an advantage that he'll be here all summer working out.
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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.
