"I came to love silence, because it's so……" — Mike Nichols
"I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition."
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39 Quotes by Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols has 39 quotes on this site.
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In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the…
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Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get…
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Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens…
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Yes. The whole point about laughter is it’s like mercury: you can’t catch it, you can’t catch what motivates it—that’s…
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All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology…
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Any good movie is filled with secrets.
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It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the…
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The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence…
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The unconscious is our best collaborator.
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Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying…
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There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.
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The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.
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More Aural Quotes
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one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of…
— David Foster Wallace
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The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of…
— Brian Reynolds Myers
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Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold…
— Wesley Morris
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But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
— Leo Ornstein
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Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
— Leila Josefowicz
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Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with…
— Roland Barthes
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Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
— Rita Dove
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Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments.…
— Brian Eno
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I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email,…
— Will Self
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Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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