58 Quotes by Michael Mann


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    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.

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    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.

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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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    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.

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    '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.

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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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    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.

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