Adaptation Quotes · Page 3

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

— Lionel Shriver

The book [Night manager] is amazing. It is amazing to act in any book adaptation, because a book gives you so many…

— Tom Hiddleston

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to…

— Alfred de Vigny

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

— Anonymous

Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are…

— John L. Casti

I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a…

— Edgar Wright

True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law…

— Anonymous

For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.

— Richard Dawkins

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

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.

— George Vaillant

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay…

— Christopher McQuarrie

Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the…

— Walter Kirn

All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“His special gift was the ability to see the essence of a worthwhile suggestion and to relate it to what was already…

— Charles Bracelen Flood

Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some…

— Alex Garland

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

— Wallace Stegner

My adaptation on the pitch has gone in parallel with my adaptation to London.

— Juan Mata

I think any musical has so many moving parts and the challenge is unifying all the moving parts in particular because you…

— Marc E. Platt

Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For…

— David Henry Hwang

I am a student of evolution and adaptation.

— Frances Arnold

In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a…

— Kage Baker

I'm very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions according to the seasons, buildings capable of responding to our…

— Glenn Murcutt

What happens in the studio is technically the same thing that happens on the stage. In the past I had to make…

— Squarepusher

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

— Walter Salles

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing…

— Octavia Butler