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Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.

— Jack O'Brien

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.

— Andrea Martin

But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

— Patrick Marber

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.

— Richard Widmark

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

— Willie Stargell

Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.

— Richard Widmark

For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.

— John Burnham Schwartz

Steve Jobs was a friend and mentor whom I miss more than I can say.

— John McAfee

✗Opposing Perspectives

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.

— Christine Baranski

I think meeting someone like, meeting Sam Shepard, that was someone who was kind of important for me, because I'd read so much of his work and watched him as an actor since I was a kid, then being on set doing a scene with him and thinking, 'This is really surreal.'

— Richard Madden