German - Director | November 6, 1931 - November 19, 2014
It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be meaningless. When you're there, you couldn't possibly predict it. Some things slowly die, and others slowly stay a while.
Mike Nichols
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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.
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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.
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'Catch-22' was a nightmare to make, and everybody was unhappy except me.
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I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'
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Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian.
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For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.
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Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.
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Fear of comedy is all so much about who you do it with.
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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.
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The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.
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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.
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