Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see.
Nicholas MeyerMy father's book is about is about a number of things, but about Houdini's rage to not be a failure like his father, and it's also about converting X-rated material, namely bondage, into family friendly safe fare, which is what he did. It's also about death and resurrection, and rising to live again another day when everyone thinks you're dead.
Nicholas MeyerNo rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.
Nicholas MeyerActors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.
Nicholas MeyerWith a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that events been conflated and that liberties have been taken, characters ditto, dates rearranged. But people don't seem to understand that movies are fictions, they are dramatizations, at least historical movies, and we should accord the moviemakers some of the same understanding and latitude. When you go to a movie you know it's a dramatization and not history.
Nicholas Meyer