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Mike Figgis

"There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad."

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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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"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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"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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"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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"Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success."
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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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"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 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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"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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"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."
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"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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