Always Quote by Angourie Rice

I have friends who are writers who have had movies made of their books, and they are almost uniformly horrified about what's been done…

— Diana Gabaldon

It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined.…

— Craig Ferguson

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I…

— Paulo Coelho

I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate…

— Daniel Handler

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

— Katherine Dunn

I'd say the purest experience for the movie is not to have read the book because I think when you've read the book you're…

— Zack Snyder

I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into…

— Gillian Flynn

When a movie based on a book comes out, people always say that the book is always better than the movie. So I'm always…

— Mannie Fresh

Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that…

— Lois Lowry

If you like the book, you'll hate the movie.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can…

— Katherine Paterson

I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.

— Sean Penn