Mike Nichols Quotes
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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
The unconscious is our best collaborator.
— Mike Nichols
Clay Aiken is amazing beyond that glorious voice. Turns out he is an excellent comic actor and a master of character.
— Mike Nichols
Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares.
— Mike Nichols
The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.
— Mike Nichols
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
Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now.
— Mike Nichols
Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next.
— Mike Nichols
The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week.
— Mike Nichols
Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.
— Andrea Martin
I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.
— Mike Nichols
I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.
— Mike Nichols
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
I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.
— Mike Nichols
Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.
— Jack O'Brien
For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.
— Mike Nichols
Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.
— Mike Nichols
Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.
— 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.
— Mike Nichols
You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.
— Mike Nichols
It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.
— Mike Nichols
A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.
— Mike Nichols
I spend my money...I don't know on what.
— Mike Nichols
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
Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian.
— Mike Nichols
There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.
— Mike Nichols
Fear of comedy is all so much about who you do it with.
— Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols used to say we were two flowers, no gardener. No one was minding the relationship.
— Carrie Fisher
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
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
I'm anything but confident.
— Mike Nichols
I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week.
— Mike Nichols
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
Any good movie is filled with secrets.
— Mike Nichols
I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'
— Mike Nichols
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