Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you … - Mike Nichols

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What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know.

Mike Nichols

Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road. . . If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

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