[Voiceover] - Why was legendary director Mike Nichols
certain his work on stage, screen
and television would speak to us?
Nichols - Because it's about you.
[VO] Everybody loved working with him.
- He's the smartest man I ever met
-  and feeling you're in the best of hands
- He said to us, "don't try to act"
- to make him laugh was one of the great pleasures
- we just had fun
[VO] Directed by his comedy
partner, Elaine May
take a loving look back at
Mike Nichols: An American Master
