Mike Nichols on Writing

Like many of you, I was saddened today to learn thatMike Nichols had died. He directed so many wonderful films...The Graduate...Silkwood...Working Girl...Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...Heartburn...and others. And he directed plays, from therecent Betrayal (which sold out for all performances before the play even opened!),to years agodirectingWhoopiGoldberg's one-act play that took her from obscurity to being a star.

He grew up a loner, and later said that gave him the ability to know what pe...