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The things that you saw earlier in your life generally have more power than the things you saw last week.

I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.

The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.

From Mike Nichols

If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.

From Mike Nichols

Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK, I got it. I know what's happening.'

From Mike Nichols

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

From Mike Nichols

Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.' It's a lesson in moviemaking.

From Mike Nichols

Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now.

From Mike Nichols

Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering the things that they aren't saying. It's a way to explore scenes. Sometimes it's more useful than others, but it's always there to see if there's anything that you might improve.

From Mike Nichols

Whether something is a success or not has never had much to do with what you do next.

From Mike Nichols

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