"I love to take actors to a place……" — Mike Nichols
"I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein."
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39 Quotes by Mike Nichols
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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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