Film Quotes by Jack Nicholson

Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.

— Jack Nicholson

I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.

— Jack Nicholson

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

— Jack Nicholson

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

— Jack Nicholson

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

— Jack Nicholson

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

— Jack Nicholson

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

— Jack Nicholson

I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be…

— Jack Nicholson

It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion.…

— Jack Nicholson

Everybody said I was good, but being known and not having a big film success is almost tougher than being completely new.…

— Jack Nicholson

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and…

— Jack Nicholson

As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be…

— Jack Nicholson

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to…

— Jack Nicholson

When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought…

— Jack Nicholson

The way I reacted to 9/11 was I decided I didn't want to do any movies that are sad or critical. I…

— Jack Nicholson

There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've…

— Jack Nicholson

Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and…

— Jack Nicholson

There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling…

— Jack Nicholson

It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to…

— Jack Nicholson