Nicholas Meyer
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"Nicholas Meyer" is an American screenwriter, producer, author and director, most known for his best-selling novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and for directing the films Time After Time (1979 film)/Time After Time, two of the Star Trek feature film series, and the 1983 television movie The Day After.

For adapting a screenplay from his own novel for The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (film)/The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), Meyer was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay/Best Adapted Screenplay. He has also been nominated for a Satellite Award, three Emmy Awards, and has won four Saturn Awards.

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The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

His life reads like a movie that requires a big bag of popcorn.

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.

From the first page of the book...[Roosevelt's] life reads like a movie that requires a big bag of popcorn, ... We start at 25, as he begins to transform himself through sheer force of will from this asthmatic, nearsighted 125-pounder to this Sherman tank of a man so tough that he once got shot on the way to make a speech and completed his talk, bleeding with a bullet in his chest.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

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

We start at 25, as he begins to transform himself through sheer force of will from this asthmatic, nearsighted 125-pounder to this Sherman tank of a man, so tough that he once got shot on the way to make a speech and completed his talk, bleeding with a bullet in his chest.