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I like change. I don't like being in the same room for too long.
Michael Mann Quotes: I like change. I don't
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.
Michael Mann Quotes: When you say that I
A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.
Michael Mann Quotes: A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500
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 Quotes: I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence.
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.
Michael Mann Quotes: Music is always key to
Digital makes things feel more real, like you could reach out and touch them.
Michael Mann Quotes: Digital makes things feel more
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 Quotes: Could I have worked under
I own a horse and ride, but I don't know racing or betting.
Michael Mann Quotes: I own a horse and
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 Quotes: HBO is not an advertiser-based
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.
Michael Mann Quotes: We take safety very, very
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.
Michael Mann Quotes: Suffice it to say, every
Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.
Michael Mann Quotes: Miami is one of these
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.
Michael Mann Quotes: I see the world from
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 Quotes: There's people who live life
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.
Michael Mann Quotes: I realized horses have personality
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 Quotes: We bring our preparation to
'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 Quotes: 'Police Story' had some of
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.
Michael Mann Quotes: Everything we do on 'Luck'
The best-kept secret about Don Johnson is the fact that he is a terrific actor.
Michael Mann Quotes: The best-kept secret about Don
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.
Michael Mann Quotes: Personally, I find looking at
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.
Michael Mann Quotes: I don't story board. I
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