Michael Mann Quotes

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

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
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  • Birth: February 5, 1943

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Most elite big men are high maintenance.

Jeff Van Gundy

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As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

Simon Schama

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I'm a hedonist.

Tommy Lee Jones

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If anything, we have an under-incarceration problem.

Tom Cotton

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When you have a disability, people think you are weak. They think they can prey on you.

RJ Mitte

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I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.

Michael Stuhlbarg

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I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.

Monica Ali

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The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

Michael Moore

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Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

Lucy Larcom

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When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.

Jason Isbell

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Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.

Jon Krakauer

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On Wall Street, every story becomes known so quickly. They are all so connected that everything disseminates there faster than anywhere.

Douglas Brunt

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