Michael Powell citations (16 citations)

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Michael Powell: Citations en anglais

“I live cinema. I chose the cinema when I was very young, sixteen years old, and from then on my memories virtually coincide with the history of the cinema … I'm not a director with a personal style, I am simply cinema. I have grown up with and through cinema; everything that I've had in the way of education has been through the cinema; insofar as I'm interested in images, in books, in music, it's all due to the cinema.”

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Michael Powell

Midi-Minuit Fantastique, Oct. 1968

“Of course, all films are surrealist. They are because they are making something that looks like a real world but isn't.”

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“We decided to go ahead with David O. (Selznick) the way hedgehogs make love: verrry carefully!”

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“The truth lies in black and white.”

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“[of his wife Frankie] "In fact, if only I had been the perfect husband, she would have been the perfect wife."”

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Million Dollar Movie

“The great innovators have always been fearless…. I have fallen off haystacks, out of trees, over cliffs. I have been nearly drowned, shot and hanged. I have been in countless car crashes without getting a scratch. I have been alone in an office with Louis B. Mayer.”

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“I got my first assignment as a director in 1927. I was slim, arrogant, intelligent, foolish, shy, cocksure, dreamy and irritating. Today, I'm no longer slim.”

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Michael Powell, 1987

“I am the teller of the tale, not the creator of the story.”

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“For ten years we had all been told to go out and die for freedom and democracy; but now the war was over, The Red Shoes told us to go out and die for art.”

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“Seventy years ago there were men like D. W. Griffith and seventy years later - now - there are not many men like Martin Scorsese. But so long as there is one there will be others, and the art of the cinema will survive.”

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“Art is merciless observation, sympathy, imagination, and a sense of detachment that is almost cruelty.”

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“Actors and technicians were being demobbed every day. Very soon the only ham actor left in the combined forces would be General George Patton.”

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“Jack Cardiff once asked Powell "Michael, do you make films for all types of audiences, or just for yourself?" Michael shook his head vigorously. "I make films for myself. What I express I hope most people will understand. For the rest, well, that's their problem."”

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“Everyone has heard of Canterbury if only because they murder archbishops there.”

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“[After Peeping Tom] When they got me on my own [the critics] gleefully sawed off the limb and jumped up and down on the corpse.”

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“My master in film, Buñuel, was a far greater storyteller than I. It was just that in my films miracles occur on the screen.”

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