Monday, April 13, 2009

the sound of silence


I told Dustin and Katharine, ‘Look, we’ve got traffic blocked for 20 blocks, we’ve got a police escort, we can’t do this over and over. Get on the bus and laugh, God damn it.’ I remember thinking, What the hell is wrong with me? I’ve gone nuts. The next day I looked at what we’d shot and went, ‘Oh my God, here’s the end of the movie: they’re terrified.’ My unconscious did that. I learned it as it happened.


Mike Nichols, director of The Graduate, in Sunday's New York Times.

Nichols is the subject of a film restrospective at MOMA.

1 comment:

mrtn said...

I love that last shot. Their faces are just fantastic.

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