Nicholas Meyer Quotes

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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 Meyer

  Movie, Inspiring, Differences

  "Screenwriters on Screenwriting". Book by Joel Engel, 1995.

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• Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

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  Stupid, May, Audience

  Nicholas Meyer (2009). “The View from the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood”, p.108, Penguin

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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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  Men, Thinking, Fire

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• But you have to understand what that really did is that it opened these DVDs to be sources of oral history instead of puff pieces for the studio, because people involved with them being in fear of being sued by somebody, so it became another form of movie history. I mean I didn't plan it, but I'm proud that it happened. Which is probably why they didn't interview me for this DVD.

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  Mean, Dvds, People

  Source: collider.com

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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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  Ideas, People, Dying

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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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  Hero, Fate, Challenges

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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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  Book, School, People

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• I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest me very much.

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  Car, Superhero, Fantasy

  Source: www.ign.com

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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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  Art, Trying, Tricks

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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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  Wish, Looks, Done

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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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  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Musical

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• We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.

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  Kind, Coups, Soviet

  Source: www.ign.com

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

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  Maps, Firsts, Holmes

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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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  Stars, Hair, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Stars, Differences, Actors

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• I never gave my career much strategic thought. Maybe I should have.

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  Should Have, Careers, Should

  Source: www.ign.com

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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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  Travel, Adventure, Symphony

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• Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.

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  Art, Commerce, Intertwined

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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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  Hands, Weather, Giving

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• Having done, you know, science fiction, I didn't want to get trapped in science fiction. So my eclecticism was my only conscious choice. I didn't want to find myself in a niche that I couldn't get out of.

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  Choices, Fiction, Done

  Source: www.ign.com

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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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  Building, Novel, Blueprints

  "Screenwriters on Screen-Writing: The Best in the Business Discuss Their Craft". Book by Joel Engel, 1995.

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• Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Wells

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• Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see.

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  Hollywood, Kind, Hollywood Studios

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I'm mainly interested in people trying to figure s#!t out.

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  People, Trying, Figures

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I think all my Star Trek movies are very earthbound.

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  Stars, Thinking, Star Trek Movie

  Source: www.ign.com

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