The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
We are being entertained all the time - in the bathroom, on the train, in our beds. Sure, there is a smaller… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK,… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I used to say that winning the Oscar means being back at the Beverly Hills Hotel at 1 A.M. feeling empty. It's the industry… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I don't expect anything from reviews. Sometimes I am bemused by them. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
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… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
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… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years.… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
