Mike Figgis Quotes
28 Mike Figgis quotes:
"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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"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."
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"What I'm interested in is tone, and the ability to articulate in a very minimal way. That's the sign of a mature musician, and that's what I look for."
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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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"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."
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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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"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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"Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film."
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