Nicholas Meyer Quotes

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• The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
• 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…
• 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…
• A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely…
• Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.
• 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…
• 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…
• Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.
• 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…
• What’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…
• 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.…
• The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.
• No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.
• Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.
• Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.
• There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.
• An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

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