Chance Quote by Mike Nichols Download Open image “The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.” — Mike Nichols ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chance Filmmaking Safe Take a chance
I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee. — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
An awful lot of filmmaking and playmaking is taken over by marketers and publicists, who set about to tell people what to think. And… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
We take safety very, very seriously on every film I make, and that's why I've never had a serious accident or anybody killed when… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting… — Anonymous 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
Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.'… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Before I debuted, it was my goal to make my debut, and afterwards, I aimed at winning champion titles on television music shows, and… — Hyuna Copy Share Image
I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm… — Stipe Miocic Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob that won't turn, a door that sticks and never budges, is a nuisance to the gods. The gods may kick in the jamb. Worse, they may walk away in disgust, leaving us to hang dumbly from… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Love changes people, for better or for worse. You could look at it as a chance for you to change. The best kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
