'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
Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas… — 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
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
You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything… — 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
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
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
