Michael Mann
Michael Mann
Michael Kenneth Mannis an American film director, screenwriter, and producer...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth5 February 1943
CityChicago, IL
bring call good maybe opportunity seize
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.
becomes directors fly fresh hard russell stay street
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.
audiences brighter exposure gives people required
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.
becomes block cameras definitely moves
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.
within
We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.
anybody seriously
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.
decent fairly homes relate screen system ubiquitous
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.
bought horses named realized ride stable
I realized horses have personality when I bought one and I had one, who's now out to pasture, a horse named Drifter. Before that, I was a city boy. Horses, I used to go out to the LaBagh Woods and ride at a stable once every two years or something; no idea about horses. Dogs, I knew, had personalities, but not horses.
horse racing
I own a horse and ride, but I don't know racing or betting.
aggression people
In 'The Insider,' I had violence - lethal, life-taking aggression - all happening psychologically, all with people talking to other people.
distinct horses magical
Horses have really distinct personalities, and they're magical in many ways.
knew time
By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.
hbo
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.
night views years
As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.