Adaptation Quote by Andrzej Wajda

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

— Nicolas Roeg

All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see…

— Tom Stoppard

When I listen to a script, it has to be entertaining. People who come to theatre should be happy and entertained.

— Vijay Sethupathi

American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do…

— Richard Ayoade

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used…

— Natalie Zea

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. It's a completely different discipline, it exists on its…

— Nicolas Roeg

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

— John Patrick Shanley

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

— Mark Waters

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product, and you're not waiting on another script.…

— David Anders

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

— Dirk Benedict

Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.

— Shonda Rhimes