I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies. Mike Nichols More Quotes by Mike Nichols More Quotes From Mike Nichols The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists. Mike Nichols joke day want night I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine. Mike Nichols great good angry anger It took me forever, learning improvisation, because I had studied with Lee Strasberg - I dropped out of Chicago and went to his classes in New York for a couple of years, once or twice a week. What I didn't realize was I was learning directing because he wasn't all that good about acting, not for me. Mike Nichols new good me learning I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it. Mike Nichols talk know want believe I never understand when people say, 'Do you do comedy or tragedy?' I don't think they're very much different. They both have to be true, and there isn't a great play in the world that doesn't have funny parts to it - as 'Salesman' does, as 'King Lear' does. The whole idea is to reflect life in some way, which means surely you have to have both. Mike Nichols king you life funny 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 pictures alone story you You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth. Mike Nichols you money want people 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 weird looking looking-back way
