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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It will no longer be necessary for a registration request for non-EU countries to be made by governments ... and there will no longer be a requirement for quality guarantees on the home market for registration in the EU.
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The best-kept secret about Don Johnson is the fact that he is a terrific actor.
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I like change. I don't like being in the same room for too long.
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We will of course do all we can to respect our international obligations.
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We will now consult with them (Latin Americans) in a positive spirit. We have to have our system up and running on January 1, so we want to move things forward as fast as we can.
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Everything we do on 'Luck' is absolutely no different than if we'd had been doing it in a feature film. There's no short cuts. The specificity of what every single line might mean. Everything Dustin Hoffman does. Kevin Dunn is as authentic in the last scene of the last episode as he is in the first scene of the first episode.
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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.'
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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.
To just tell a story from beginning, middle and end doesn't motivate me that much.
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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.
Digital makes things feel more real, like you could reach out and touch them.
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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.
Very little of it is untrue, ... But it's all dramatized.
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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.