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Mike Figgis

"I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way."

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"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."
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"There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad."
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"But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking."
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"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."
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"One of the things I love about cinema is the range."
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"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."
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"I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on."
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"I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument."
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"I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music."
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"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."
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