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Things come in waves, and I'm...

Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, where people don't follow fashion. They're not galloping past your window on the way to the latest anything. They're living their lives. You do a play, they come and see it and say, 'That's nice', and then they go home.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

I was standing right behind M...

I was standing right behind Marilyn, completely invisible, when she sang 'Happy birthday, Mr. President.' And indeed, the corny thing happened: Her dress split for my benefit, and there was Marilyn, and yes, indeed, she didn't wear any underwear.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

I don't know that a political...

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

There's nothing in the Americ...

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

As a director, my job is, and...

As a director, my job is, and always has been, divided into a number of things: dealing with the crew, the money and the studio, and the marketing and publicity. These are all different jobs that have to be learned and done as well as possible. The celebrity part rarely touches a director.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

Improvisation has to do with ...

Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering the things that they aren't saying. It's a way to explore scenes. Sometimes it's more useful than others, but it's always there to see if there's anything that you might improve.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

You want to make money, remak...

You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

The reason that most British ...

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 very end of their lives, they get into a space movie and they make a lot of money, but until that happens, basically, they don't have bank accounts. They live from day to day.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

There are absolutely almost p...

There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need to do - or want to do - next. They see nothing wrong with it. They feel no guilt. They express no guilt. And it's not even certain what harm they do.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

I think the main thing about ...

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

My father wasn't too crazy ab...

My father wasn't too crazy about me. I loved him anyway. One of the things I regretted for a long time was that he died before he could see that he would be proud of me. I was actually more what he wished for than he thought.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

The only safe thing is to tak...

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

Being with an insanely jealou...

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

You can always tell gifted an...

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.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

I believed early and still be...

I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

I am drawn to the mystery of ...

I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is a very strong subject. I think it may be my subject.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

'Catch-22' was a nightmare to...

'Catch-22' was a nightmare to make, and everybody was unhappy except me.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

All the theories that acting ...

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

Chicago is not a very fashion...

Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

You could say that it's in ta...

You could say that it's in talking movies that inner life begins to appear. You can see things happen to the faces of people that were neither planned nor rehearsed.

Mike Nichols 26 quotes

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