Quotes by Michael Mann

• We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.
• In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.
• There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.
• A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.
• 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.
• I think it's easy for directors to stay fresh more than actors, especially once an actor becomes a star. It's hard for Russell Crowe to walk down a street or take a subway. I can fly coach.
• Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.