Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations. — Frank Darabont Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know? — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Characters, conflict and geography are things that must be considered while making movies from adaptations. — Vetrimaaran Copy Share Image
Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations. — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“we see beautiful adaptations everywhere and in every part of the organic world.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say ‘Oh,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Almost all the movies I've directed are adaptations. And I think what I found when I went to film school, where they… — James Franco Copy Share Image
As far as 'Birdsong' is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of… — Sebastian Faulks 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
I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
“From the Hive Manual. The relationship between ecology and evolution is extremely close, deeply implicated in organic changes among a given animal… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
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… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“In any case, the list of adaptations that allow wolverines to make an ally of winter is impressive. Yet until scientists started… — Douglas H. Chadwick Copy Share Image
“The unglamorous truth is that there are but a handful of uniquely human traits that we have clearly demonstrated are adaptations evolved… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“In the movie I was played by an actor who actually looked more like me than the character the author portrayed in… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live… — Alan Hollinghurst 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
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
What you hear mostly people gripe about adaptations is, 'They took out this scene,' or, 'They had to condense these characters.' I… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case,… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
“The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“There were three people in my home and I was the only one showing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and reactivity to the radio frequency… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
