"If you want to be a legend, God……" — Mike Nichols
"If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it's fun to do a lot of different things."
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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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