Book Quote by Ari Marcopoulos

Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger…

— Dani Shapiro

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books…

— Charlize Theron

I love writing books, but it's a solitary experience. When I'm on a film set, I'm with a bunch of other artists working together…

— George Pelecanos

Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts.

— Leon De Winter

A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different entities in…

— Andrea Riseborough

I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order…

— Steven Hall

I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to…

— Alan Lightman

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not…

— Paul Auster

Films and books have been intertwined as far as my growing up is concerned.

— Ruskin Bond

Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure…

— Geoffrey Ward

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really…

— Ayelet Waldman