City Of Angels

Kirk: I don't believe you. You pretended to have it one day, and I thought you were just doing it to calm me.

Streep: I was. [Laughs]

Mike, you've said that you wrote down your dream cast when you decided to do this movie.

Mike Nichols: This certainly was it. There was no one that any part was offered to that we didn't get. That was a nice start.

Thompson: It's nice not to be the 35th person on the list as well. That's quite rare.

Nichols: As an actress once said to me, "Thank you so much for my part. Usually five or six people have to die before I get cast." [Laughter] But in this case it was obviously a piece that everybody knew and loved. They're great, great parts. And I think actors also sometimes like to do things for too little money.