“Looking over all of it, the single most obvious thing to me, in all we read and all we write about films, is this: People fear the creative moment. That’s why they talk so long about a given scene. But the creative moment is happening when the camera is turned on, and stops when it’s turned off. First time…this time…only now…never again to be that way again. That’s it.”
More from Jack Nicholson
“Why can't we work out our differences? Why can't we work things out? Little people, why…”
“I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. Back in the days when I thought of myself as…”
“I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming…”
“A few years from now, if you can still portray a human being, you’ll be quite a valuable…”