Nicholas Meyer
Birthday: 24 December 1945, New York City, New York, USA
Nicholas Meyer was born in New York City, the son of a psychoanalyst and a concert pianist. He attended the University of Iowa, home of the famous Writers Workshop.Meyer's award-winning teleplays ...Show More
[on Time After Time (1979)] One of my original conceptual things about the Ripper was that of an exc Show more
[on Time After Time (1979)] One of my original conceptual things about the Ripper was that of an exceedingly handsome, elegant man. Wells, next to him, was a runt who wore glasses, and so forth. The Ripper had an image of tremendous power and potency, not just as a menace, but as an attractive, seductive human being. What was it that women went for him? Hide
[on the difference between an actor and a movie star] An actor is someone who pretends to be somebod Show more
[on the difference between an actor and a movie star] An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them. Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear. Hide
[on the Star Trek villains] The best villains are the ones that you can understand. And the really g Show more
[on the Star Trek villains] The best villains are the ones that you can understand. And the really great villains are the ones that you root for. One of us is gonna live and one of us is gonna die. And it doesn't really matter what anyone's motives are at that point. It's just Darwin. Hide
Nicholas Meyer's FILMOGRAPHY
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