Nicholas Meyer
Nicholas Meyer
Nicholas Meyeris an American screenwriter, producer, author and director, most known for his best-selling novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and for directing the films Time After Time, two of the Star Trek feature film series, and the 1983 television movie The Day After...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth24 December 1945
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
firsts maps holmes
The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.
taken character historical-novels
With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that events been conflated and that liberties have been taken, characters ditto, dates rearranged. But people don't seem to understand that movies are fictions, they are dramatizations, at least historical movies, and we should accord the moviemakers some of the same understanding and latitude. When you go to a movie you know it's a dramatization and not history.
rock-and-roll rocks musical
No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.
stars voice hair
Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.
wish done looks
There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.
war historical-novels gone
When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make it. That research has gone into it and we say "This is a history of the civil war, this is a biography of Lincoln" whatever. But you don't make any such supposition when you say "This is a historical novel."
differences made filmmaker
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.
hero fate challenges
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.
stupid may audience
Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.
mean dvds people
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.
men thinking civilization
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.
book school people
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.
art commerce intertwined
Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.
art trying tricks
Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.