"You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent……" — Mike Nichols
"You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted."
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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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