List of Mike Figgis Quotes

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.

I'm A Huge Fan Of World Cinema, Because Each Country Uses Cinema In A Very Individual Way.

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.

I Play Piano And Trumpet. I Studied Classical Guitar.

Then I Became Interested In Drama, And Almost By Accident, I Drifted Into Film.

But I Don't Have Such A Strong Desire To Need To Get Away From Filmmaking.

I've Spent My Life Hearing People Trying To Apologize For Music.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One Of The Things I Love About Cinema Is The Range.