Adaptations Quote by Bret Easton Ellis

“The movie was very different from the book in that there was nothing from the book in the movie. Despite everything — all the…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“In the movie I was played by an actor who actually looked more like me than the character the author portrayed in the book:…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when…

— Alan Hollinghurst

The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original…

— Walter Salles

My adaptations are just as complicated as an original.

— Lynne Ramsay

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard…

— Tom Stoppard

Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.

— Marc Platt

Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

— Mark Waters

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in…

— Alan Moore

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

— Ralph Fiennes

What you hear mostly people gripe about adaptations is, 'They took out this scene,' or, 'They had to condense these characters.' I understand why…

— Jay Asher

I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's never as…

— Amber Heard