Mike Figgis Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 28, 1948

Topics

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You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

Jenna Bush

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When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.

Jeff Garlin

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After doing 'Firefly' and moving on, I always wanted to be part of a series again. I love doing films, too, but there's just something special about being part of the team and feeling like you're actually a part of the family, and I always look to re-create that.

Summer Glau

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There are creative benefits to getting older.

Ron Howard

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I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

Mike Shinoda

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The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.

Michelle Dean

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I plays Joe's best friend. I am the only one he has ever been able to trust in his life, so I help him understand what happened to him when he was younger.

Michelle Trachtenberg

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Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.

Joseph Stefano

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The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.

Dennis Washington

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For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.

Douglas Coupland

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I get super bored playing bland, normal girls.

Drea De Matteo

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Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Doug Larson

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