"The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when……" — Barry Eisler
"The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations."
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21 Quotes by Barry Eisler
Barry Eisler has 21 quotes on this site.
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If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on…
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I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already…
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The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement,
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From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office…
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a…
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The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost…
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche…
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure…
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When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a…
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More Adapt Quotes
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
— Paul Auster
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Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one…
— Diane Ackerman
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You adapt to who you're photographing.
— David Bailey
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Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
— Joe Barton
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
— Gary Bauer
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As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
— Wendy Carlos
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
— Emile M. Cioran
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In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their…
— Herbert Croly
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The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy,…
— Sun Tzu
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The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some…
— Paulo Freire
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Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.
— Jack Ramsay
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