Nicholas Meyer Quotes

I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.

I am open to doing comedies, romantic stories, and commercial cinema, but it has to work for me so that I can give a year of my life in making it.

I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice.

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting.

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.

I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.

I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.

I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.

It's not about choosing a specific genre; that's not how I go about deciding what movies to make.

I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.

I essentially started out with a Western series for WildStorm/DC but didn't want to be perceived as a 'Western artist.' I did a couple of super-hero things at Marvel but didn't want to be one of those guys, either. I loved all these genres and wanted to play in a very big toy box. Enter 'Planetary.'

The corporateness of the fashion industry tends to take away or distort the freedom of creation.

There are a lot of great recording artists, like Jack White and Jack Johnson, who stay confined inside a very small box, but I'm more like Bon Iver, who recorded an album with programmed drums, and the next record was totally organic. I get that.

I'm not meant to sit on the couch and not play music. But I never want to feel like I have to put out a record. I don't want to ever make those records.

If I like a script, I will definitely pick films of different genres, but I won't do something just for the sake of it.

I don't make a conscious effort to choose any particular genre. If I like the script, I go ahead with the project.

I never want to stick to one genre of movies and was opened to do everything.

I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.

My musical output has been consistently acoustic, but my taste has not. I love everything. As long as it's good, I'm in.

I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

If I wasn't touring, I wasn't making money. When I got the MacArthur, I could get off that hamster wheel. It meant I didn't have to do anything.

I looked at comics like a buffet table, where you take a little bit of something and leave the other stuff behind.

Reggaeton is what opened the doors for me, and I'm always grateful for that. I'll do reggaeton for life, but I want to show that I'm an artist who can do everything.