Michael Mann
Michael Mann
Michael Kenneth Mannis an American film director, screenwriter, and producer...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth5 February 1943
CityChicago, IL
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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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We don't think anyone should be restricting exports of poultry because poultry is perfectly safe. There is no bird flu on poultry farms in Europe except on one turkey farm in France, where all the birds have been slaughtered.
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We believe this new tariff meets all the requirements on the WTO and the Latin Americans, and will restore their access to the European market,
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Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.
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We can also raise export subsidies to help the sector to export produce. The more meat is exported, the less remains on the domestic market and that's good for prices.
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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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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.
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I don't story board. I do something else, which is, I block it. We then train to the blocking. In other words, when everybody's training, they're actually training a lot of the moves that we are definitely going to use, and then, I do a lot of photography of that, and that becomes where the cameras go.
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'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.
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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.
To just tell a story from beginning, middle and end doesn't motivate me that much.
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We've been negotiating this thing for 20 years so it was about time that we had an agreement. We're going to clink glasses on this.
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We don't want to be forced to have a second reform.
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We don't want things to drag on too long and we would prefer this not to become entangled in the wider Doha discussions at the end of the year.