Nicholas Meyer Quotes

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Nicholas Meyer

Profession : Writer

Birth : December 24, 1945

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

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The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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