Purpose Art Quotes by Nicholas Meyer

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

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

— Nicholas Meyer

Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the show demonstrates…

— Nicholas Meyer

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.

— Nicholas Meyer

I never gave my career much strategic thought. Maybe I should have.

— Nicholas Meyer

Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see.

— Nicholas Meyer

I wrote an article not so long ago that was published in the Los Angeles Times, and I think I titled it "Movies vs.…

— Nicholas Meyer

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

— Nicholas Meyer

But you have to understand what that really did is that it opened these DVDs to be sources of oral history instead of puff…

— Nicholas Meyer

The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end of history…

— Nicholas Meyer

My father's book is about is about a number of things, but about Houdini's rage to not be a failure like his father, and…

— Nicholas Meyer

I'm mainly interested in people trying to figure s#!t out.

— Nicholas Meyer

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

— Nicholas Meyer

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made…

— Nicholas Meyer

When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make it. That…

— Nicholas Meyer