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Mike Nichols quotes: There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

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

Mike Nichols quotes: I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

Mike Nichols quotes: The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.

The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.

Mike Nichols quotes: The unconscious is our best collaborator.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Mike Nichols quotes: Clay Aiken is amazing beyond that glorious voice. Turns out he is an excellent comic actor and a master of character.

Clay Aiken is amazing beyond that glorious voice. Turns out he is an excellent comic actor and a master of character.

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

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

Mike Nichols quotes: The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.

The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.

Mike Nichols quotes: Nerves provide me with energy ... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

Nerves provide me with energy ... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

Mike Nichols quotes: Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now.

Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now.

Mike Nichols quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next.

Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next.

Mike Nichols quotes: Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me.

Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me.

Mike Nichols quotes: The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week.

The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week.

Mike Nichols quotes: I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies,

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies,

Mike Nichols quotes: I don't expect anything from reviews. Sometimes I am bemused by them.

I don't expect anything from reviews. Sometimes I am bemused by them.

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

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

Mike Nichols quotes: I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

Mike Nichols quotes: The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.

The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.

Mike Nichols quotes: I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

Mike Nichols quotes: For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

Mike Nichols quotes: Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

Mike Nichols quotes: Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.

Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.

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

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

Mike Nichols quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Mike Nichols quotes: It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

Mike Nichols quotes: A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

Mike Nichols quotes: I spend my money...I don't know on what.

I spend my money...I don't know on what.

Mike Nichols quotes: I was just trying to make a nice little movie ... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie ... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

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

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 quotes: Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

Mike Nichols quotes: Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian.

Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian.

Mike Nichols quotes: There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

Mike Nichols quotes: That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

Mike Nichols quotes: Fear of comedy is all so much about who you do it with.

Fear of comedy is all so much about who you do it with.

Mike Nichols quotes: I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

Mike Nichols quotes: People, by and large, would rather be talking than listening.

People, by and large, would rather be talking than listening.

Mike Nichols quotes: The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

Mike Nichols quotes: If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.

If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.

Mike Nichols quotes: I'm anything but confident.

I'm anything but confident.

Mike Nichols quotes: I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week.

I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week.

Mike Nichols quotes: I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

Mike Nichols quotes: Any good movie is filled with secrets.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

Mike Nichols quotes: In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

Mike Nichols quotes: I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.

I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.