Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
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
My father wasn't too crazy about me. I loved him anyway. One of the things I regretted for a long time was… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
'Streetcar' is no longer about the moment at all. There is no Blanche DuBois anywhere; south, north, east or west. We don't… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, where people don't follow fashion. They're not… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole,… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
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
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
Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Never let people see what you want, because they will not let you have it. Never let anybody see what you feel,… — 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
