Love Quote by Mike Figgis

Figgis’s line is disarmingly modest, but it sneaks in a whole aesthetic manifesto: cinema matters because it refuses to be one thing. “Range” isn’t just about genre-hopping or eclectic taste. It’s a defense of the medium as a sandbox where the intimate and the operatic can share the same frame, where a whisper can carry as much force as spectacle, where form can be as expressive as story.

Coming from Mike Figgis, the word lands with extra charge. He’s a director who has treated cinema less like a pipeline and more like a laboratory, moving between studio features and experiments in structure and time. Think of his fascination with simultaneity and fractured attention: the idea that film can hold multiple emotional truths at once, or that a narrative can be experienced as texture rather than a straight line. When he praises “range,” he’s implicitly pushing back against the industrial habit of narrowing movies into reliable products: clean arcs, test-screened beats, marketable tones.

The subtext is also personal: an artist staking claim to curiosity as a value. “Love” signals allegiance, not critique, but it’s the kind of affection that challenges. Cinema is big enough to contain contradiction, failure, mess, and risk - and Figgis is pointing to that as the reason it stays alive. The sentence ends abruptly, almost unfinished, as if the list is endless. That’s the point: the medium’s best feature is that it won’t sit still.