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Film director

Mike Figgis, born on February 28, 1948, is a British film director known for his unique narrative style and profound emotional expression. His works, such as 'Love Story' and 'A Beautiful Mind', are highly recognized for their artistic value.

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“You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.”

Trying Play Film Found Interesting Player Structure Versions Session

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“I never had any urge or desire to do like a big spectacular movie with thousands and thousands of extras. I'd rather watch paint drying. But put me in a room with three people having a hard time, like a character situation, and then you're into a really intense portraiture kind of concept.”

People Kind Character Desire Situation Paint Intense Extras Hard Times Having A Hard Time

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“There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Humans Sadness Conditions Music Is Add Depth Visuals Human Condition

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“There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker”

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

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“I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.”

Firsts Made Film Hollywood Impressed

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“The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.”

Movement Function Cameras Storytelling

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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 like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.”

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“I had no plans to be a director.”

Plans Directors

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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.”

Want Trying Enough Company Cameras Friendly Efficient Users Intrigued Sony Modifying User Friendly

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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.”

Years Has Beens Different Matter Film Process Missing Months Seven Scripts Eight Shooting Code Shelves Different Times Miss Julie

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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.”

Film Plans Periods Theatre

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“I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.”

Play Might Actors Guitar Piano

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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.”

Art Film Used Performances Theatre Used To Be Intrigued Performance Art Live Theatre

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“I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.”

World Way Country Use Individual Fans Huge Cinema

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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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“I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.”

Play Guitar Piano Trumpets Classical Guitar

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“Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.”

Film Drama Accidents

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“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.”

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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.”

Knows States Certain Sound Can Do Audience Harmony Psychological Undervalued

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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.”

Littles Actors Difficult Rich Healthy Agents Managers Spoilt

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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.”

Way Ends Form Term Century Development Mirrors Originals Jazz Cycles Exploring Classical Music Original Music

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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.”

Ifs Way Film Musician Happenings Treats Singers Dialogue

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“The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.”

World Humorous Fascinating Tragic

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“I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.”

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“One of the things I love about cinema is the range.”

Range Cinema Things I Love

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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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Born: February 28, 1948
Known for: Film director
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