Quotes by Nicholas Meyer

Nicholas Meyer

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.

Blueprints

Building

Novel

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn’t disappear.

Hair

Stars

Voice

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

Art

Commerce

Intertwined

Art doesn’t just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

Art

Tricks

Trying

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.

Giving

Hands

Weather

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

Audience

May

Stupid

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.

Dvds

Mean

People

First of all, I should preface this by the observation that artists are not the best judges of what they’ve done and the word definitive does not belong, in my opinion, in any conversation about art. When somebody says it’s the “definitive” something, I’m always recoiling.

Art

Doe

Judging

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.

Choices

Done

Fiction

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

Careers

Should

Should Have

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Actors

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Audience

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Book

Brave New World

Building

Car

Careers

Celebration

Challenges

Character

Choices

Commerce

Coups

Differences

Doe

Done

Dvds

Dying

Elephants

Entering

Eyeballs

Facts

Fantasy

Fate

Father

Fiction

Figures

Fire

Firsts

Genre

Giving

Gone

Hair

Hands

Hero

Historical Novels

Hollywood

Hollywood Studios

Holmes

Ideas

Inspiring

Intertwined

Judging

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Quotes by Nicholas Meyer

Nicholas Meyer

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.

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn’t disappear.

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

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 hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

First of all, I should preface this by the observation that artists are not the best judges of what they’ve done and the word definitive does not belong, in my opinion, in any conversation about art. When somebody says it’s the “definitive” something, I’m always recoiling.

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.

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

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