Cinema Quote by Balachandra Menon

I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a…

— Rick Moody

Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film…

— William S. Burroughs

Films which have some historical significance can be remade.

— Manoj Kumar

After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in…

— Harmony Korine

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

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately.…

— Sam Raimi

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El Niño Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before I made…

— Lucia Puenzo

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into…

— Iain Banks

I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those…

— Alexander Payne

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience

— Ed Harris

Film has changed vastly in the time that I've been an actor, and it's, I think, very much for the better. I think there…

— John Hurt