Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I think that the reason that people are so up in arms about movies that have historical inaccuracies is because now that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Having done, you know, science fiction, I didn't want to get trapped in science fiction. So my eclecticism was my only conscious… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I never gave my career much strategic thought. Maybe I should have. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
