Top 84 Quotes by Mike Nichols

About Mike Nichols

These are some quotes by German author Mike Nichols Director, who lived between November 6, 1931 and November 19, 2014.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole, thrilling new form that I really enjoy. They are Tolstoy-an in their endless character development and narrative changes... a show like 'Breaking Bad' is astonishing.

Mike Nichols

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

Mike Nichols

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