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"For ten years we had all been told to go out and die for freedom and democracy; but now the war was over, The Red Shoes told us to go out and die for art."

— Michael Powell Attributed

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I got my first assignment as a director in 1927. I was slim, arrogant, intelligent, foolish, shy, cocksure, dreamy and irritating. Today, I'm no longer slim.

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[of his wife Frankie] In fact, if only I had been the perfect husband, she would have been the perfect wife.

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