Quotes About Film Adaptations

#1. My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point.

Alan Moore

#2. It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?

Richard Donner

#3. I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.

W.P. Kinsella

#5. Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#6. Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.

Greg Graffin

#7. 'Noah' doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film are out and out ridiculous). It gets the morality of the story wrong, and in the process turns God into Gaia and morality into radical deep green environmentalism.

Ben Shapiro

#8. Almost all the movies I've directed are adaptations. And I think what I found when I went to film school, where they try to push you to find your voice or your thing, is that I got a lot of things out of adaptations.

James Franco

#9. On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

Mother Teresa

#10. In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say 'Oh, your book was so good, they ought to make a movie out of it!' To which I reply 'Well, why? It's already a book.

Orson Scott Card

#11. The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.

Heather Morris

#12. In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.

Kage Baker

#13. My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports ... and life.

Alexander Ludwig

#14. I don't tell you what you should do or not do; I only show you who you are
-the timeless and unchanging awareness.
When this is firmly established inside you,
your life will unfold spontaneously and joyously.

Mooji

#15. Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them.

Jenny Agutter

#16. If we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

Douglas J. Moo

#17. People who do not keep their small agreements are people who cannot be trusted. If you cannot be trusted with small agreements, people will not help you make your big dreams come true.

Anonymous

#18. You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

Nicholson Baker

#19. Protected by hundred bodyguards, even a chick can show some courage! That's also the secret of why some head of states look brave!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. Khaldoun believed that the great curse of civilization is not war or famine but humidity: "When the moisture, with its evil vapors ascends to the brain, the mind and body and the ability to think are dulled. The result is stupidity, carelessness and a general intemperance.

Eric Weiner

#21. The pain is not always measured by a number of tears rolling down your cheek. There are kinds of pain with no appearances, whatsoever.

Sarvesh Jain

#22. When answering questions over the years about film and TV adaptations of my books, I have always maintained that no movie or TV series could ever change or damage my work.

Michel Faber

#23. A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

Paul Valery

#24. For however one may come in later years to reassess one's achievements, it is always a consolation to know that one's life has contained a moment or two or real satisfaction

Kazuo Ishiguro

#25. Writing has certain advantages; film is another way to tell a story. An experienced filmmaker will take what she needs from the book and leave out other things. With adaptations, you never get the texture of the writing: it's a different mode.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#26. The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.

Joyce Rachelle