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Mike Figgis Quotes

You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.

Mike Figgis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Slow Camera You Audience Tension

For me, the bottom line is what's on the page.

Jimmy Smits

Me Page Line Bottom Bottom Line

When you get the opportunity to work with somebody like Jude Law, there is a fear. They've got lots of stuff under their belt.

Jessie Buckley

Work Fear Opportunity Law You Get

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

World You Living Everyday Question

I love what I do. I would hate to give it up. But if I could, I would run for office in Texas. I would run someplace heinous to make a difference.

John Leguizamo

Love Hate Texas Make A Difference Up

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

Jeff Cooper

Survive Important Will Prevail

Not many skeletons left in my closet because I invite them to dance all over the front room!

John Schneider

Dance Over Room Left Because Closet

My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time.

Russell Smith

Father Time Early Place Student

I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

Matisyahu

Home Coffee School Band Kid Parking

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

Ross Levinsohn

Opportunity Revolution Media Digital

I have worked with several art directors and production designers who are just magnificent. Dave Getz, Paul Felix, Ian Gooding... just amazing artists, and I would say, if I had anything to do with it, I just pick good artists!

Roy Conli

Good Art Amazing Say Anything Just

I wouldn't say that dittoheads, as a group, lack the ability to reason. It's just that whenever I run across one, he seems to be at a low ebb in reasoning skills.

Molly Ivins

Skills Say Group Run Reason Ability

On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.

Corey Feldman

Creative Pink Thought You Alive New