"I was always a filmmaker before I was……" — 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 much of a difference to me what medium I worked in."
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17 Quotes by Nicholas Meyer
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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?…
- A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a…
- 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…
- Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like…
- 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…
- What’s the difference between and actor and a movie star. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else.…
- Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t…
- 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…
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