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.

— Mike Figgis

Mike Figgis Quotes

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.

— 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.

— 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.

— 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.

— Mike Figgis

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.

— 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.

— Mike Figgis

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.

— Mike Figgis

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

— Mike Figgis

There’s nothing I’ve done which I’m ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

— Mike Figgis

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

— Mike Figgis

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

— Mike Figgis

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

— Mike Figgis

I had no plans to be a director.

— 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.

— Mike Figgis

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.

— Mike Figgis

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

— Mike Figgis

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

— Mike Figgis

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.

— 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.

— Mike Figgis

But I don’t have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

— Mike Figgis

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