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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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"I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts."
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"It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great."
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"The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest."
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"We are what we think."
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"I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars."
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"I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how."
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"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."
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"I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing."
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"Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet."
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"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible."
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Explore more quotes by 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."
Actor
"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."
Actor
"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
"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."
Media
"But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking."
Desire
"I want the score to have a really big voice."
Voice
"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."
Music
"Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free."
Time
"I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film."
Art
"I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument."
Work
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