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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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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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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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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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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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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In 'The Insider,' I had violence - lethal, life-taking aggression - all happening psychologically, all with people talking to other people.
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A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.
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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.
I've never made any film that I wouldn't go back and re-edit.
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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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The violation occurred on the day of the inspection, so the cleanup will not alter the notice of violation.
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The Russians are amongst our top-spending and most important customers. It's important to make them feel welcome.
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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.