"If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay."

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Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

— Mike Nichols