Mike Nichols Quotes

Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols
German Director
Born: Nov 6, 1931
Died: Nov 19, 2014
About Comedy Great Me People You
Related authors: Douglas Sirk Leni Riefenstahl Lexi Alexander Rainer Werner Fassbinder Til Schweiger Werner Herzog Wim Wenders
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
Love Key Job Take Open Vein Safe Make Where Place Them Actor
It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can. Mike Nichols
Best Job Way Tell Best Way He His Story Explain Technique
I used to say that winning the Oscar means being back at the Beverly Hills Hotel at 1 A.M. feeling empty. It's the industry voting. It doesn't come from God. It doesn't change your life, really. Mike Nichols
Life God Change Voting Feeling Back Say Winning Hotel Beverly Beverly Hills Come Hills Industry Empty Being Really Means Your Used Oscar
'Catch-22' was a nightmare to make, and everybody was unhappy except me. Mike Nichols
Me Unhappy Everybody Except Catch-22 Make Nightmare
For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell. Mike Nichols
Director Hell Musical Kind Special
Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though. Mike Nichols
Comedy Though Brutal Powerful
It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that. Mike Nichols
Work You Comedy Reward Benny Spirit Martin Almost Simultaneous Like Steve Steve Martin Because Saint Doing Very Jack Jack Benny Where Little Avoid Actual
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
Life You People Say Neither See Faces Could Talking Were Nor Begins Happen Movies Planned Appear Rehearsed Things Things Happen Inner Inner Life
As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making them, seeing them - is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me. That puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy - love, family, food, movies. Mike Nichols
Love Food Family Me Joy Sometimes Lose Pleasure Kid Seeing Give Something Give Me Could Puts Making List Often Short Place Little Movies Them Eternally Little Kid Hard Hard Place Ever Things
Clay Aiken is amazing beyond that glorious voice. Turns out he is an excellent comic actor and a master of character. Mike Nichols
Character Amazing Master Glorious Out Voice Clay Excellent He Beyond Comic Turns Actor
I keep coming back to it, over and over - adultery and cheating. It's the most interesting problem in the theater. How else do you get Oedipus? That's the first cheating in the theater. Mike Nichols
You Problem Adultery Cheating First Else Back Over Most How Coming Get Theater Interesting Keep
All movies are pure process. A commercial movie isn't less process than an art movie. You can't make your decisions about a film on the basis of, 'Is it important enough? Is it serious enough?' It's either alive or it's not for me. If it's alive, I want to do it. Mike Nichols
Art Me You Pure Important Enough Alive About Make Commercial Than Want Movie Process Either Decisions Movies Your Less Serious Film Basis
When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the new Lexus. You have to know what the guy writing the review cares about to understand his take. Does he like sports cars, or does he like Bentleys? Mike Nichols
You Sports Writing Car Reading Cares Market About Guy Take He New Like Know Talk Talking Understand Does His Review Reviews Report Just Really
We are being entertained all the time - in the bathroom, on the train, in our beds. Sure, there is a smaller audience for theater. But we know from radio that entertainment never goes away, it just changes. And more power to it. Mike Nichols
Time Entertainment Power Changes Our Bathroom Entertained More More Power Never Smaller Know Sure Audience Beds Train Goes Just Being Theater Radio Away
I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on. Mike Nichols
Me Think Honorable Alive Something Instead Make Task Page Turns
Load more quotes

No more Mike Nichols quotes

Haven't find the right quote? Try quotes from authors related to Mike Nichols.

About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2025