Cinema Quote by Mike Nichols Download Open image “For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.” — Mike Nichols ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Director Hell Kind Music Musical Special
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven. — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and… — David Bryan Copy Share Image
A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA. — Martin Short Copy Share Image
The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself. — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
Every director, when they make a film, their souls speak. The kind of stories they choose to make, it shows their souls. — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show where what… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of 20th century orchestral music, the experimental avant-garde composers of the '50s, '60s, and '70s. In horror movies you can write… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
I've never been very good at creating absolute music, which has no non-musical dimension to it. I think that is why filmmakers gravitated toward… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
The respect for a musical score must come from the director... If the director has no power and has to surrender to budgetary constraints,… — Ennio Morricone 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
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
