Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth. Mike Nichols deadinsanelyjealous Change image and share on social
Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort. Mike Nichols closecomforthold Change image and share on social
My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and her running downstairs to go after it. I have no memory before that. I was 4. My father had a lot of girlfriends and my mother had a lot of boyfriends. Mike Nichols boyfrienddownstairsfather share on social
Here's the most mysterious thing to me. I look back at those first plays I did and the first movies I did, and I only have one question, which is, 'What was I so confident about? Where did I get that? Mike Nichols backconfidentmovie Change image and share on social
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 adulterybackcheat Change image and share on social
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 aliveamericanappearance Change image and share on social
American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast. Mike Nichols americanbreakfastbrother share on social
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 eternallyfamilyfood share on social
I think a director can make a play happen before your eyes so that you are part of it and it is part of you. If you can get it right, there's no mystery. It's not about mystery. It's not even mysterious. It's about our lives. Mike Nichols directoreyehappen share on social
The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head. Mike Nichols directoressentiallyfilm Change image and share on social
