Adapting Quote by Arthur Miller

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay…

— Barry Eisler

There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements and introspection…

— Nicholas Sparks

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure.…

— Paul Auster

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

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation. In this play, I had a strong main character and it…

— Philippe Falardeau

Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately, they [moviemakers]…

— Jonathan Tropper

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 always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the…

— Howard Gordon

When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I do think a good story in a novel is fair game and there's nothing wrong with adapting that. It sometimes gets a bit…

— Colin Firth