Words matter. These are the best Mike Figgis Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There’s a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn’t have if the music wasn’t there.
I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.
The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
I started using film as part of live theatre performance – what used to be called performance art – and I became intrigued by film.
I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.
In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.
One of the things I love about cinema is the range.
I’ve spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.
There’s nothing I’ve done which I’m ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.
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.
I had no plans to be a director.
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.
When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what’s happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.
Each film is different. Time Code was very quick – a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick – 16 days.
In a way, the history of jazz’s development is a small mirror of classical music’s development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.
I want the score to have a really big voice.
Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
