Nicholas Meyer Quotes

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Cinema is an art form.

Film is a strange thing.

Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.

I am a serious filmmaker, and I see the whole process of filmmaking more as a piece of art.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

I'm not educated as a filmmaker, so it's quite a jump for me.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

I'm a storyteller who wants to tell untold, meaningful, universal stories in unforgettable ways. I want to do it all, study it all, and find my place in it.

I see myself as a storyteller and want to do films that are being made all over the world.

Number one, I am a true movie maker. And, you know, I am very much - I don't want to say infatuated, but I'm impressed with the art of making a movie and invoking emotion. You know, when I started making movies, I thought it was easy, and then when I got into it, I was like, 'This is not easy at all.'

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

I don't make projects; I make films.

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day, and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

At the core, I'm a filmmaker and a storyteller.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

You want to enjoy making a movie - it's a wonderful, collaborative thing.