Nicholas Meyer

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

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

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.

Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise.

All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were supposed to do: to go out on the road.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.