Books Quote by Brian Christian

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get…

— Jay McInerney

Movies are explorations; they take you on a path, and I think it's always better if it's a path that you don't know, that…

— Olivier Assayas

My feeling, however, is that films that are open are more productive for the audience. The films that, if I'm in a cinema, and…

— Michael Haneke

Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure…

— Geoffrey Ward

If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different media have…

— Bill Watterson

Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

— Norman Mailer

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

— Steven Bochco

. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead…

— Orson Welles

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd…

— Steve McQueen

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller