Anna Quote by Ashwin Sanghi

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'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

Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up.…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I think as an author you have to allow a movie to be separate from the book. It's an entirely different animal. I almost…

— Rainbow Rowell

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

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon

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

The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination…

— Jemaine Clement

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get…

— Jay McInerney

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

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

It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the…

— Jonathan Tropper