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Mike Figgis

"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."

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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

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"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."

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"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."

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"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."

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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

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"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."

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"Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding."

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"Ability without honor is useless."

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"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."

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"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."
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"I want the score to have a really big voice."
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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 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'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way."
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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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"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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"I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker."
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