Quotes by Michael Mann

“Were number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.”

“We will of course do all we can to respect our international obligations.”

“We believe this new tariff meets all the requirements on the WTO and the Latin Americans, and will restore their access to the European market,”

“We will now consult with them (Latin Americans) in a positive spirit. We have to have our system up and running on January 1, so we want to move things forward as fast as we can.”

“Weve been negotiating this thing for 20 years so it was about time that we had an agreement. Were going to clink glasses on this.”

“I think they ought to be ashamed of themselves,”

“Very little of it is untrue, ... But its all dramatized.”

“The test,”

“And so, the challenging thing, ... is that youre going to have to change things in drama, of course. Either that, or youre doing a phone book. But at the same time, they have to mean the same thing. ... You cant take creative license as a license to be untruthful.”

“Heat”

I dont underestimate audiences intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar.

Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.