Mike Figgis Quotes
The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.
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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
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Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.
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His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
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The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.
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A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
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If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.
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The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.
