Nicholas Meyer Quotes

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

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

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

There are movies I've made that I think no celebrations are in order.

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

I think all my Star Trek movies are very earthbound.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR.

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.

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.