Mike Figgis Quotes

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

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.

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.

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

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.

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