The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas…

“The movie was very different from the book in that there was nothing from the book in the movie. Despite everything — all the…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“In the movie I was played by an actor who actually looked more like me than the character the author portrayed in the book:…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when…

— Alan Hollinghurst

The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original…

— Walter Salles

My adaptations are just as complicated as an original.

— Lynne Ramsay

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard…

— Tom Stoppard

Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.

— Marc Platt

Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

— Mark Waters

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in…

— Alan Moore

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

— Ralph Fiennes

What you hear mostly people gripe about adaptations is, 'They took out this scene,' or, 'They had to condense these characters.' I understand why…

— Jay Asher

I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's never as…

— Amber Heard

Characters, conflict and geography are things that must be considered while making movies from adaptations.

— Vetrimaaran

“The unglamorous truth is that there are but a handful of uniquely human traits that we have clearly demonstrated are adaptations evolved to thrive…

— Adam Rutherford

Everybody says video-game adaptations are all the same, but I disagree. Normally, video-game adaptations are like Alone In The Dark, Resident Evil, Alien Vs.…

— Uwe Boll