About Quotes by Mike Nichols

17 About quotes by Mike Nichols

Director Mike Nichols turns his storytelling craft inward, delivering seventeen pithy observations that blend theatrical flair with personal insight.

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Fear of comedy is all so much about who you do it with.

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I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

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I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't…

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If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a…

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The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for…

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Here's the most mysterious thing to me. I look back at those first plays I did and the first movies I did,…

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If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or…

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'Streetcar' is no longer about the moment at all. There is no Blanche DuBois anywhere; south, north, east or west. We don't…

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All movies are pure process. A commercial movie isn't less process than an art movie. You can't make your decisions about a…

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It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be…

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Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering…

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My father wasn't too crazy about me. I loved him anyway. One of the things I regretted for a long time was…

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It took me forever, learning improvisation, because I had studied with Lee Strasberg - I dropped out of Chicago and went to…

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I think a director can make a play happen before your eyes so that you are part of it and it is…

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You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything…

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American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about…

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When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the…

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I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week.

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The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.

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I don't expect anything from reviews. Sometimes I am bemused by them.

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My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and…

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Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next.

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The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money. At the…

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Fear of comedy is all so much about who you do it with.

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If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years.…

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Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried.

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Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.'…

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Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not…

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'Streetcar' is no longer about the moment at all. There is no Blanche DuBois anywhere; south, north, east or west. We don't have Blanche…

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