"I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. Thatâ€™s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein."

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Mike Nichols

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“I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.”
“In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing to do with art. So I'm making it clear that this is an artistic choice. It's not everyone's artistic choice. Some people should choose only to make object form because that's what gives them pleasure. But there are people for whom aesthetic pleasure comes from doing something else, and why would you deny that choice? It's another autonomous choice.”

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“If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.”
“The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.”
“At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.”
“It is good to be the possessor of some mountain-top experience.”
“All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.”
“It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside.”

Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

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