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
bag life reads requires
His life reads like a movie that requires a big bag of popcorn.
associated embrace happy lucky proud resides
I'm very happy that the movie resides in the affectionate embrace of so many people. I just feel lucky and proud to have been associated with it.
stupid may audience
Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
firsts maps holmes
The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.
stars differences actors
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.
stupid thinking people
So the Lincoln movie gets trashed because Connecticut voted for the amendment - not to mention how the people in Connecticut feel - but there's a lot of that. And I think it precedes from a fundamental misunderstanding of cinema. They are entertainment. And I'd like to say that entertainment isn't a synonym for disposable or mindless or stupid. Hamlet? Pretty entertaining from where I come from.
adventure symphony orchestra
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
father book thinking
My father's book is about is about a number of things, but about Houdini's rage to not be a failure like his father, and it's also about converting X-rated material, namely bondage, into family friendly safe fare, which is what he did. It's also about death and resurrection, and rising to live again another day when everyone thinks you're dead.