Adaptation Quote by Brian Helgeland

If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's like the…

— Brian Helgeland

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We…

— Voltaire

“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We…

— Anonymous

My adaptations are just as complicated as an original.

— Lynne Ramsay

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

— Stephen Dunn

[Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it…

— Zack Snyder

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

— Voltaire

I've had stuff of mine adapted by other people, so I've come to the conclusion that a movie is a different form from a…

— Donald E. Westlake

Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

— Antonio Gaudi

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

— Frank Darabont

In any adaptation, the challenge is to take the essence of the original source of the material, be faithful to it to a point,…

— Marc Platt