You could say that it's in talking movies that inner life begins to appear. You can see things happen to the faces… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Here's the most mysterious thing to me. I look back at those first plays I did and the first movies I did,… — 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
I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
All movies are pure process. A commercial movie isn't less process than an art movie. You can't make your decisions about a… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they… — 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
