"What’s the difference between and actor and a……" — Nicholas Meyer
"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 who pretends that somebody else is them."
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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.
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Once you decide that you're going to have the death of Spock, then how does that affect the other people?…
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I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and…
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A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a…
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Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.
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As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your…
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Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like…
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Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.
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If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to…
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Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t…
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The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.
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No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110…
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