Quotes About Movie Adaptations

#1. Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it, and you do it yourself, and you wait until the screenplay is ready, you don't have to worry about that.

Stephen Chbosky

#2. I have seen and really liked the varied movie adaptations of the book, but 'Little Women' has a sprawling, richly tangled story that needs time and space to weave its magic.

Susanna Kearsley

#3. The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

Stephen Sondheim

#4. Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.

David S.Goyer

#5. A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.

Richard Schickel

#6. She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

Christine Feehan

#7. If you say, 'I don't want to offend anyone,' then don't get on stage. Just ask yourself, 'Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.'

Lilly Singh

#8. I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

Brad Grey

#9. He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

Nicholas Sparks

#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. Your calling should be combined with your passion

Sunday Adelaja

#12. Never judge a book by its movie.

J. W. Eagan

#13. And in a very civil fashion did Manilov did so, even going as far as to address the man in the second person plural.

Nikolai Gogol

#14. Would've thought it was a closet door, but it couldn't have been, unless a half-naked chick had been hiding in there. If so, this was my kind of dorm.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#15. I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'

Lori Wilde

#16. Adversity begets spirituality.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. you are what you repeatedly do

Shaquille O'Neal

#18. I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.

Kelli White

#19. We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

Diane De Poitiers

#20. Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'

Noah Baumbach

#21. 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

#22. You always did have a problem with undies. Remember when you wet your pants in the second grade?
- Joyce Barnhardt

Janet Evanovich

#23. If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [ ... ] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.

Curtis Jackson

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

Joyce Rachelle