"I got my first assignment as a director in 1927. I was slim, arrogant, intelligent, foolish, shy, cocksure, dreamy and irritating. Today, Im no longer slim."
Michael Latham Powell was an English filmmaker, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. Through their production company The Archers, they together wrote, produced and directed a series of classic British films, notably The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Sh
"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 ... Im not a director with a personal style, I am simply cinema. I have grown up with and through cinema; everything that Ive had in the way of education has been through the cinema; insofar as Im interested in images, in books, in music, its all due to the cinema."
Michael Powell (director)"[of his wife Frankie] In fact, if only I had been the perfect husband, she would have been the perfect wife."
Michael Powell (director)