Nicholas Meyer

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

— Nicholas Meyer

I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest…

— Nicholas Meyer

There are movies I've made that I think no celebrations are in order.

— Nicholas Meyer

We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.

— Nicholas Meyer

As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you…

— Nicholas Meyer

With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that…

— Nicholas Meyer

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only…

— Nicholas Meyer

Once you decide that you're going to have the death of Spock, then how does that affect the other people? Why is…

— Nicholas Meyer

Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.

— Nicholas Meyer

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

— Nicholas Meyer

First of all, I should preface this by the observation that artists are not the best judges of what they've done and…

— Nicholas Meyer

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

— Nicholas Meyer

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

— Nicholas Meyer

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that…

— Nicholas Meyer