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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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.
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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.
I've never made any film that I wouldn't go back and re-edit.
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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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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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That's nonsense -- we are not favoring anybody. We are aiming for the most reasonable and sensible system.
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And the more input, the more we hear from people, the better the plan is going to be and the better it's going to reflect what the community wants and what it can handle.
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We decided (Tuesday) to reject Greece's application for a 2-year ban. We didn't get any evidence from Greece that the variety would be either an environmental or a health risk.
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We've so far managed to find pragmatic solutions for them to keep marketing their produce like they did before.
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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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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.
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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.