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Mike Figgis

"It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy."

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"It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy."

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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 want the score to have a really big voice."

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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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"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 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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"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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