A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
