Nicholas Meyer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Stupid #May #Audience
I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Differences #Made #Filmmaker
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Adventure #Symphony #Orchestra
There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Wish #Done #Looks
Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Stars #Voice #Hair
No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Rock And Roll #Rocks #Musical
The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Firsts #Maps #Holmes
Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I donâ€™t think the show demonstrates that. I think it is about gunboat diplomacy. In the final analysis, the Enterprise fires. Theyâ€™re always shooting and bringing civilization, and coming to worlds where they donâ€™t approve of tyrannical enterprises â€“ no pun intended â€“ and they substitute their own quote unquote enlightened version of how society is supposed to work, which is essentially American.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Men #Thinking #Civilization
Whatâ€™s the difference between and actor and a movie star. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Stars #Differences #Actors
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their flaws are something that they have to act in spite of. The challenge is not to defy your fate, but to endure it. That is heroic.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Hero #Fate #Challenges
Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Art #Commerce #Intertwined
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Book #School #People
As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Hands #Weather #Giving
Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Art #Trying #Tricks
A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Building #Novel #Screenplays
Once you decide that you're going to have the death of Spock, then how does that affect the other people? Why is it there? I got a lot of stick from a lot of people from the very beginning about the idea of killing Spock. Somebody said, "You can't kill him." And I said, "Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well."
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Ideas #People #Dying
Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well.
-- Nicholas Meyer

#Wells

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