Mike figgis

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.

I want the score to have a really big voice.

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

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.

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.

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...

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

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

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.