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Mike Nichols Discusses the Difference Between Directing Plays and Movies

Nichols: I don’t know. I think it makes you better with actors to know the process, to know how they feel, to know what they’re going through, to know what can turn someone on. I’m very much about giving actors things to do that will put them in the state that they need to be in for the scene. But movies are a very different thing from plays. Doing a play is about where everybody is on the stage. Doing a movie is a much more complicated, stranger thing having to do with to whom is any given moment happening? Whose experience is it?
Nichols: I don’t know. I think it makes you better with actors to know the process, to know how they feel, to know what they’re going through, to know what can turn someone on. I’m very much about giving actors things to do that will put them in the state that they need to be in for the scene. But movies are a very different thing from plays. Doing a play is about where everybody is on the stage. Doing a movie is a much more complicated, stranger thing having to do with to whom is any given moment happening? Whose experience is it?
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Credit:
Pyramid Productions
Editorial #:
1299004653
Collection:
Archive Films: Editorial
Date created:
September 08, 1990
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Rights-ready
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Clip length:
00:00:44:25
Location:
United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 29.97i
Originally shot on:
Betacam SP NTSC 486 29.97i
Source:
Archive Films Editorial
Object name:
a05049_07_2