Top 46 Michael Mann Quotes
#1. For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.
Matthew Modine
#2. Sometimes you don't need to explain how you care and love someone so much, but I really love him as a person and as a director. I wanted to be perfect for him [Michael Mann]. I wanted to give the best of my best of my best. I don't know if I did, but I was touched by him. He's totally inspirational.
Marion Cotillard
#3. I'm a great fan of Michael Mann and when he asked to see me I couldn't believe it. I was very happy. I met him and I read this beautiful script. I didn't know anything about Dillinger. I fell in love with the movie and Michael Mann.
Marion Cotillard
#4. I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this ...
Marion Cotillard
#5. But there is a more virulent strain at the root of Western Lysenkoism today. Scientists, like Holdren and Michael Mann, can be leftist ideologues as well, posing to manipulate and mislead for the good of the cause. Bottom line: green is the new red. That is why Obama at root is so committed to it.
Peter Ferrara
#6. I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.
Antoine Fuqua
#7. Producing, for me anyway, it's coming up with material. It's sitting down with you know the likes of Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann and talking about a movie and really creating something from nothing.
Graham King
#8. The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.
Victoria Mahoney
#9. Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.
Peter Berg
#10. The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.
Michael E. Mann
#11. By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.
Michael Mann
#12. I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar.
Michael Mann
#13. 'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were based on real cases.
Michael Mann
#14. To just tell a story from beginning, middle and end doesn't motivate me that much.
Michael Mann
#15. Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.
Michael Mann
#16. The best-kept secret about Don Johnson is the fact that he is a terrific actor.
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#17. I see the world from the perspective of a 5'8" person, not someone who is 6'4". so naturally, I'm going to choose certain lens heights over and again ... Sometimes nature makes choices for you.
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#18. Digital makes things feel more real, like you could reach out and touch them.
Michael Mann
#19. We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.
Michael E. Mann
#20. Horses have really distinct personalities, and they're magical in many ways.
Michael Mann
#21. HBO is not an advertiser-based model, it's a subscription model. So what's significant to HBO is not necessarily the debut of an episode, it's the cumulative numbers.
Michael Mann
#22. Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact of numerous incremental studies that together paint an increasingly coherent picture of how nature works.
Michael E. Mann
#23. I own a horse and ride, but I don't know racing or betting.
Michael Mann
#24. I think it's easy for directors to stay fresh more than actors, especially once an actor becomes a star. It's hard for Russell Crowe to walk down a street or take a subway. I can fly coach.
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#25. There's people who live life authentically and there's people who live a life of fabrication. And it begins with the question of how you're gonna do your time. And these are observations I made about Folsom when I was there with Dustin Hoffman when he was directing 'Straight Time.'
Michael Mann
#26. Blu-ray and the technologies emerging around it are the premiere format for reproducing what we do as filmmakers. There's more space on the disc, more bit rate.
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#27. I've never made any film that I wouldn't go back and re-edit.
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#28. We take safety very, very seriously on every film I make, and that's why I've never had a serious accident or anybody killed when I make a picture.
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#29. A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.
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#30. I relate more to the fact that 80-inch plasma has just started to become ubiquitous and in people's homes the fairly decent 5.1 sound system and the big screen isn't that out of reach.
Michael Mann
#31. Video looks like reality, it's more immediate, it has a verite surface to it. Film has this liquid kind of surface, feels like something made up.
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#32. I like change. I don't like being in the same room for too long.
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#34. Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he was in character. That sounds superficial, but it's true, and look at the results.
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#35. Music is always key to me, whether it's 'Miami Vice' or not 'Miami Vice.' It's dictated by the story, about what Crockett and Tubbs and Isabella and Trudy are doing.
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#36. What I try to do - I mean 'try,' because you don't get there all the time - is to have impact with content. It's those moments in which you're trying to bring people beyond filmed theater. If I have an ambition, it's that.
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#37. Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.
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#38. There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced.
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#39. Personally, I find looking at all of the supporting materials and bring it all back to me - the people I worked with, the experience of working on a project - makes it come alive again. So, I try to put those experiences into my commentary for the viewers.
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#40. In 'The Insider,' I had violence - lethal, life-taking aggression - all happening psychologically, all with people talking to other people.
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#41. When you say that I can go and make a movie, I feel like I'm one of the most fortunate men. I feel myself to be a fortunate man that I found something to do that I really love.
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#42. Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.
Michael E. Mann
#43. In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.
Michael E. Mann
#44. I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.
Michael E. Mann
#45. We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity and then maybe something good happens, and you call that luck.
Michael Mann
#46. Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for a good reason. He was robbing the very institutions, the banks, which had afflicted the people for four years, and after four years nothing was getting any better.
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