One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

Next quotes

• Mike Figgis:

  I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

• Mike Figgis:

  Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be

• Mike Figgis:

  There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

• Mike Figgis:

  Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, an

• Mike Figgis:

  Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my sh

• Mike Figgis:

  I had no plans to be a director.

• Mike Figgis:

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

• Mike Figgis:

  I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art -

• Mike Figgis:

  In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development thro

• Mike Figgis:

  When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they tre