Nicholas Meyer Quotes (8 Quotes)

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.

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.

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.

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.

From the first page of the book...Roosevelt's life reads like a movie that requires a big bag of popcorn, ... We start at 25, as he begins to transform himself through sheer force of will from this asthmatic, nearsighted 125-pounder to this Sherman tank of a man so tough that he once got shot on the way to make a speech and completed his talk, bleeding with a bullet in his chest.

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.

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

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