Nicholas Meyer Quotes
What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
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I'm like, 'Why aren't artists owning their masters? Why are labels robbing artists dry, and they have to spend all this time on tour to even break even?' Like, what happened? Why are they promoting things that aren't either socially conscious or elevating the human consciousness?
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I'm a human being, and I get sick.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.
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The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
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What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.
