Quotes

You can fool all the people all the time if the advice is right and the budget is big enough.

[on the box-office take after the expensive US campaign for Jack the Ripper (1959)] We dropped dead in every one! You'd think somewhere, a small town maybe, some place, it would have done business. But, no. That's a record they'll never come close to.

[an example of his difficulty remembering names] If Mike Nichols wants Dustin Farnum in The Graduate (1967), I let Mike have him. Now for the music he wants Simon and Schuster.

[on Hercules (1958) (aka "Hercules")] One of the worst pictures I ever saw, but I knew it had great appeal. There was a market for anything then.

[to Mike Nichols, after seeing "The Graduate" for the first time]: I smell, money, Mike. I smell money.