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Mike Figgis

"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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Charlotte Eriksson

"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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Mike Figgis
"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."

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Mike Figgis
"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."

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Mike Figgis
"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."

Music

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Mike Figgis
"You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there."

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Mike Figgis
"But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking."

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Mike Figgis
"I want the score to have a really big voice."

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Mike Figgis
"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."

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Mike Figgis
"Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free."

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Mike Figgis
"I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film."

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Mike Figgis
"I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument."

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