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 that. I think it is about gunboat diplomacy. In the final analysis, the Enterprise fires. They’re always shooting and bringing civilization, and coming to worlds where they don’t approve of tyrannical enterprises – no pun intended… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share
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. History." But I think they had another title for it. I got sort of sick and tired of seeing movies that got picked apart by people because they had taken dramatic or poetic license and I… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share
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 pieces for the studio, because people involved with them being in fear of being sued by somebody, so it became another form of movie history. I mean I didn't plan it, but I'm proud that it… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share
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
