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 Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows… — Michael Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement, — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
…shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency,… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get… — Raul Garcia Copy Share Image
Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
Shane Salerno and I adapted my book Savages together, and I learned a lot about adaptation. I think it's an extremely difficult… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
We are equal human beings, and we were born with evil and anger and misunderstanding of what a man is, and so… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
If a program of physical activity isn't designed to get you stronger or faster or better conditioned by producing a specific stress… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
It’s a lovely adaptation that honors Lois Lowry’s vision and authority…the film…illuminates and explores the beauty, danger and pain of our free,… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what… — Akiva Goldsman Copy Share Image
The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I've had stuff of mine adapted by other people, so I've come to the conclusion that a movie is a different form… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The challenge in any musical is unifying all the moving parts of it, in particular a movie musical because now you're adding… — Marc E. Platt Copy Share Image
I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at… — Richard Cotovsky Copy Share Image
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
It's terrible for people when they really love a book and there's an adaptation and they don't like it, because it's almost… — Killian Scott Copy Share Image
Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
“Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
'Bubba Ho-Tep' was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it's still going strong in story… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it,… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Life is challenging for everyone. If someone can believe that he's a sovereign in his tiny domain, it's just an adaptation to… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
“Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along… — Jaimal Yogis Copy Share Image
Vipul Shah wanted me to do the Hindi adaptation of my film 'Kaakha Kaakha.' I declined the offer. — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
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