“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.”

— Michael Powell

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English film director 1905–1990

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