Nicholas Meyer

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.

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.