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Nicholas Meyer [1945-0] American

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Writer, Screenwriter

Nicholas Meyer is 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.

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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.		101
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.		102
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.		103
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.		104
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.		105
Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.		106
Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.		107
The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.		108
An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.		109
There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.'		110

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