Michael Powell (director)

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

"We decided to go ahead with David O. the way hedgehogs make love: verrry carefully !"

"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 ci…"

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

"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 pe…"

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

"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,…"

"The truth lies in black and white."