Nicholas Meyer quotes
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“Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.”
-- Nicholas MeyerSource : Nicholas Meyer (2009). “The View from the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood”, p.108, Penguin
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“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.”
-- Nicholas MeyerSource : "Screenwriters on Screenwriting". Book by Joel Engel, 1995.
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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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“There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.”
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“Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.”
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“No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.”
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“The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.”
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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 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 – and they substitute their own quote unquote enlightened version of how society is supposed to work, which is essentially American.”
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“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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“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 that they have to act in spite of. The challenge is not to defy your fate, but to endure it. That is heroic.”
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“Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.”
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“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 reads them.”
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“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 the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.”
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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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“A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.”
-- Nicholas MeyerSource : "Screenwriters on Screen-Writing: The Best in the Business Discuss Their Craft". Book by Joel Engel, 1995.
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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? Why is it there? I got a lot of stick from a lot of people from the very beginning about the idea of killing Spock. Somebody said, "You can't kill him." And I said, "Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well."”
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“Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well.”
-- Nicholas Meyer
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