Adaptation Quote by Barry Eisler

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

— Deepika Padukone

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I simply asked if I could have a go at adapting a screenplay. But I did not want any money, in case I failed…

— Ben Affleck

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

— Kate DiCamillo

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that…

— Josh Radnor

The credit for the success of my films go to the director and the script.

— Shamna Kasim

When I directed the third 'Insidious' film I loved it so much that I decided this is what I want to do from now…

— Leigh Whannell

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

— Augusten Burroughs

I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

— James Wan

I turned in a script that meant a lot to me and an executive at Warner Bros said he was disappointed in me. I…

— Dustin Lance Black

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

— Ravi Subramanian

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

— Takeshi Kitano