top of page
Quote_1.png
Mike Figgis

"I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music."

Standard 
 Customized
"I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music."

Exlpore more Life quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Learn to be a responder, not a reactor."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof."

Explore more quotes by Mike Figgis

Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Mike Figgis
"I want the score to have a really big voice."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Mike Figgis
"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."
Quote_1.png
Mike Figgis
"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."
Quote_1.png
Mike Figgis
"But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking."
Quote_1.png
Mike Figgis
"I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument."
Quote_1.png
Mike Figgis
"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."
bottom of page