Books Quote by Bill Watterson

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

“I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography…

— Brian Christian

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

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

— Steven Bochco

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two…

— Josh Hutcherson

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a…

— David Mitchell

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

— Katherine Dunn

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

On one hand it's very flattering to be compared to a big success, and then sometimes it's very frustrating because you want people to…

— Neil Burger

With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to…

— Jennifer Lee

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 better a novel is, in literary terms, the more you can't be faithful. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good…

— Alexander Payne