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Top 25 Mike Figgis Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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

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Mike Figgis Quote: “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.”

2. “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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Mike Figgis Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Mike Figgis Quote: “There’s nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker.”

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

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Mike Figgis Quote: “I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.”

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

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Mike Figgis Quote: “I’ve spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.”

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

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Mike Figgis Quote: “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.”

7. “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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Mike Figgis Quote: “I had no plans to be a director.”

8. “I had no plans to be a director.”

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Mike Figgis Quote: “The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.”

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

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Mike Figgis Quote: “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.”

10. “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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Mike Figgis Quote: “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.”

11. “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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Mike Figgis Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Mike Figgis Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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

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

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Mike Figgis Quote: “I’m a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.”

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

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Mike Figgis Quote: “I started using film as part of live theatre performance – what used to be called performance art – and I became intrigued by film.”

16. “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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Mike Figgis Quote: “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.”

17. “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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Mike Figgis Quote: “I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.”

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

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Mike Figgis Quote: “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.”

19. “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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Mike Figgis Quote: “Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.”

20. “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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Mike Figgis Quote: “There’s nothing I’ve done which I’m ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.”

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

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Mike Figgis Quote: “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.”

22. “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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Mike Figgis Quote: “But I don’t have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.”

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

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Mike Figgis Quote: “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.”

24. “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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Mike Figgis Quote: “One of the things I love about cinema is the range.”

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

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

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

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Mike Figgis Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

— Mike Figgis

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