Famous quotes containing the words michael, powell, captain and/or lansdorff:
“Do we really want to know HOW Michael Jackson makes his music? NO. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man—and, until he tells us, it doesn’t make too much difference whether or not he really is “bad.””
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)
“No battle is worth fighting except the last one.”
—J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)
“Young men all of us—we’ve got to be. You know why? I’ll give you two good reasons. We jump out of planes, and guys shoot at us.”
—Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Captain Nelson (Errol Flynn)
“I don’t like sending ships to the bottom. What sailor does?”
—Screenwriter. Michael Powell. Captain Lansdorff (Peter Finch)