Mike Nichols interview (1992)

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  • Academy Award-winning director Mike Nichols reflects on his influential career and discusses his most recent work, "Death and the Maiden," the way Nichols works with actors and his philosophy of directing, a discussion of a movie lull that lasted seven years, how he regained his passion for directing and about why he makes movies and why film is important.
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  • @ManufacturingIntellect
    @ManufacturingIntellect  7 років тому +3

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  • @McCensored
    @McCensored 2 роки тому +20

    I studied with Mike. He was the most articulate person I have ever listened to in my entire life. And it isn’t even close. He somehow knew everything about everyone and everything.

    • @Eric_Gilbert
      @Eric_Gilbert 5 місяців тому +1

      You’re so lucky. I wish I knew him

    • @McCensored
      @McCensored 5 місяців тому

      He was one of the kindest men I’ve ever met, too. He would have loved to have met you. ❤

    • @j.m.436
      @j.m.436 2 місяці тому

      One time in early ‘00s Nicols came to see a play that my friend was in, one of his students was in it, or a couple perhaps. Afterwards he stood in the lobby smoking (ignoring the “no smoking” sign) and talking with everyone.

  • @adamzanzie
    @adamzanzie Рік тому +10

    40:02 "Individuals are remarkable, and individual lives are still remarkable, and courage still exists, and people who try to serve something beyond themselves still exist."
    Well-said. Rest in peace, Mike Nichols.

  • @christophergerety5577
    @christophergerety5577 7 років тому +31

    Could listen to Nichols talk forever. He really deserves a biography.

    • @adamzanzie
      @adamzanzie Рік тому +3

      Mark Harris' recent biography of Nichols is a good read.

    • @davecassady7468
      @davecassady7468 Рік тому +1

      ​@@adamzanzie I'm reading it now.

  • @leonmateo15
    @leonmateo15 7 років тому +15

    This is better than any film school. Such a gentleman. So earnest about his approach to art.

  • @rodneycross2473
    @rodneycross2473 2 роки тому +6

    Seems incredible that this interview took place almost 30 years ago.

  • @patr70
    @patr70 2 роки тому +3

    "Angels in America" was my favorite Mike Nichols work.. It's such a good mini-series and I am glad it got a lot of recognition.

  • @Eric_Gilbert
    @Eric_Gilbert 5 місяців тому +1

    This is brilliant. Thank you for posting

  • @marienosoucy
    @marienosoucy 4 роки тому +7

    How brillant is Mike Nichols !

  • @neilmurphy7554
    @neilmurphy7554 2 роки тому +2

    Charlie Rose is a fantastic interviewer, superbly present without being overbearing. It feels like Mike Nicholls appreciates Rose's approach and gives more. I particularly like the idea of ones creative agency being on a pendulum and needing the space of the negative swing to reflect and ready oneself for the next momentum forward. I regard Nicholls as a genius and Silkwood as his masterpiece but with the feeling that all his movies are great in their own way. Rose reaches for Mikes intelligence and finds it and it feels so satisfying to watch. BRAVO!!!!

  • @jamesbond4633
    @jamesbond4633 6 років тому +16

    Very interesting and deep man. I remember a quote in a high school reunion book from one of the long retired teachers. She had 2 favourite quotes that really stuck with her over the years. One of them applies to what Mike Nichols said about when he was the man of the time and really wasn't enjoying it or experiencing it even though on the surface it looked like he was so successful and should be utterly satisfied. "To have had the experience but miss the meaning". I think that is very deep. I think he finally gets the meaning of those experiences.....be as generous as you can ...and as forgiving. I can see how that applies in my own life ..probably all our lives. How it can enhance our experience in living maybe? I have done it a little lately ....and it does work. People I don't really care for and maybe ignore. If I show a bit of kindness and empathy it completely changes everything. Its pretty amazing ...tough to do though. Nice to hear someone in Hollywood that is deep and thoughtful and who is about "the story" ...not the fame and money!!!

  • @flannerymonaghan-morris4825
    @flannerymonaghan-morris4825 Рік тому +2

    His voice is so nice to listen to!

  • @MrChrispy777
    @MrChrispy777 2 роки тому +4

    I was amused at the thought of when Nichols said, "I think that the camera sees your nature, in the end," that Rose was stopped cold, and said, "What do you mean?"
    Knowing his history with women, and his exposure to the camera, adds quite another layer to his question.

    • @ziggersz4899
      @ziggersz4899 28 днів тому

      No idea to what you're referring.

    • @MrChrispy777
      @MrChrispy777 28 днів тому

      ​@ziggersz4899
      Rose was a sexual and power predator. Nichols claimed the camera captures your real nature.
      Charlie was hoping that wasn't true.

  • @navigatorone1808
    @navigatorone1808 5 місяців тому

    absolutely brilliant...miss him greatly!

  • @susanbernard8511
    @susanbernard8511 4 роки тому +5

    Also a young and gifted Charlie Rose getting the best from his
    Amazing Guest, thank you both.

    • @ParkerAllen2
      @ParkerAllen2 3 роки тому +1

      Charlie Rose was such a great, smart interviewer. I miss him.

  • @edwardjnarrojr3135
    @edwardjnarrojr3135 2 роки тому +1

    I've never missed this incredible PBS program. Incredible Talented interviews

  • @rogerparis
    @rogerparis Місяць тому

    One of the great ones!

  • @HomeAtLast501
    @HomeAtLast501 3 роки тому +4

    What he says about each scene in the theater (or, in fiction or film, for that matter --- or more abstractly, in story) being about love or conflict --- "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" exemplifies that principle on steroids. It's one of the most dynamic films I've scene, and it takes place within a home (for the most part) during a single evening.

  • @charlychips
    @charlychips Рік тому

    I love all his movies. All these people are so much more alive in my life than so many people actually living. Charlie Rose is great at the interview as `I have never seen him before, very involved and totally respectful.

  • @thomassimmons1950
    @thomassimmons1950 5 років тому +3

    Absolute brilliance !

  • @davidkelly7272
    @davidkelly7272 6 місяців тому

    Sad that I only 'came' to this very interesting,thoughful man (apart from a brief piece with Elaine May I recorded when Perry Como was aired on BBC tv in 1962) on viewing this interview. As a cinemagoer of longstanding and having gone to see all his earlier successes, strange I didn't pick up that it was him who had directed them.

  • @michaelmcdonagh5104
    @michaelmcdonagh5104 Рік тому +1

    Wonderful interview. But he doesn't talk about how George Stevens' A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951) changed his life. No matter. He's done alot of good films.

  • @barbaraball5002
    @barbaraball5002 4 роки тому +3

    "Real events supplanted fiction." Mike Nichols

  • @downrodeo2112
    @downrodeo2112 2 роки тому

    The end of this interview is incredibly profound

  • @LisaDefazio
    @LisaDefazio 7 років тому +5

    The last 15 minutes are exceptional

    • @JamesMc2051
      @JamesMc2051 6 років тому +1

      39:14

    • @jamesbond4633
      @jamesbond4633 6 років тому +2

      An exceptional man!! ..A shame new people of this ilk are not being promoted ...hard to find new entertainment that is not dumb and stupid that is insulting to the intellect. My nephew is one of the new talent that has humour and intellect and he can't even get people to read his material. A shame. Canada does nothing to promote its own talent. He has more success in the US!! The last little bit is very interesting. He really opens up. Real life blasted out art. WWII...Kennedys..MLK ..Ruby Oswald. I think he is a deep thinker. Marshall Mcluhan. Would have been a very interesting guy to sit down and chat with.

  • @robjohnson8214
    @robjohnson8214 2 роки тому

    The bummer about youtube and the web is that everyone seems to be watching the cool older stuff but nobody is creating anything today.

  • @bytheivy
    @bytheivy 2 роки тому +2

    11:39/13:57 - 17:19
    20:10 - 22:22 The Pendulum
    27:02 - 28:47 down time. Relax
    31:29 - 33:15
    38:39 - 39:15

  • @patriceodom2553
    @patriceodom2553 Рік тому

    My favourite. Movie as a youngster was "Day of the Dolphin 🐬".
    Guess that proves I know nothing of cinema. "Ma loves Pa" 🤗.
    Did not know I put was a flop?🤔

  • @ultrakool
    @ultrakool Рік тому

    I've always preferred Catch-22 to M*A*S*H,
    but then again I've never been an Elliott Gould person

  • @Eric_Gilbert
    @Eric_Gilbert 5 місяців тому

    Catch 22 was a good film

  • @patr70
    @patr70 2 роки тому

    Charlie Rise is so Arrogant. He always tries to be smarter and more grande than his guests.. it's revolting and disgusting.

  • @HomeAtLast501
    @HomeAtLast501 3 роки тому

    How did such a seemingly grounded man end up with a control freak, manipulatress, narcissist like Diane Sawyer?

    • @jamesanthony5681
      @jamesanthony5681 3 роки тому +2

      Do you know her?

    • @HomeAtLast501
      @HomeAtLast501 3 роки тому

      @@jamesanthony5681 Yes.

    • @HomeAtLast501
      @HomeAtLast501 3 роки тому

      @@jamesanthony5681 Why, do you also know her?

    • @jamesanthony5681
      @jamesanthony5681 3 роки тому +1

      @@HomeAtLast501 No, only from seeing her on TV News, 60 minutes, etc., and what I've read about when she was a Nixon aide.

    • @HomeAtLast501
      @HomeAtLast501 3 роки тому +1

      @@jamesanthony5681 Have you seen the video of her drinking wine and popping pills during a commercial break?