41 Quotes by Nicholas Meyer

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

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

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

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.

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.

His life reads like a movie that requires a big bag of popcorn.

I wrote an article not so long ago that was published in the Los Angeles Times, and I think I titled it "Movies vs. History." But I think they had another title for it. I got sort of sick and tired of seeing movies that got picked apart by people because they had taken dramatic or poetic license and I said "These people don't understand the distinctions."

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.