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The only safe thing is to take a chance.

~Mike Nichols

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The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?

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If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it's fun to do a lot of different things.

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Any good movie is filled with secrets.

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There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

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Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

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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.

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You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.

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I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.

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I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' My girl and I could not get up during intermission, we were so stunned. To this day it's the only thing I've seen on stage that's 100 percent real and 100 percent poetic simultaneously.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Director

Born: November 6th, 1931

Died: November 19th, 2014

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