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Michael Mann Quotes

- Director | February 5, 1943 -

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.

Numbers Significant Model Debut HBO

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.

Personality Ride City Woods Horse

Horses have really distinct personalities, and they're magical in many ways.

Magical Horses Personalities Many

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

Time Knew Wanted Direct By The Time

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.

People Reach Become More Sound Out

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.

Good Hero Man People Better America

Digital makes things feel more real, like you could reach out and touch them.

Feel Reach You Touch More Digital

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.

Reality Looks Kind More Up Film

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.

Character Look Results Say True

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.

Music Me Story Key Miami Doing

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.

Words Training Story Photography Go

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.

Safety Picture Serious Seriously Why

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