Adaptation Quotes

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As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two… — Ernst Mayr
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and… — Christopher Hampton
I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and… — Stephen Chbosky
Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it, and you do… — Stephen Chbosky
Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of… — Suzanne Collins
I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have… — Tommy Davidson
As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual… — Rene Dubos
At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the… — Cary Fowler
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract… — Ada Lovelace
It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at… — Richard Donner
My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation. — Lev Grossman
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them.… — Richard Schickel
I think that when you do an adaptation for theater, it's either a marriage or a love affair..and so tremendous is my esteem and affection… — Romulus Linney
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we… — Trofim Lysenko
Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him… — Ian Mckellen
Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation… — Grace Abbott
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations. — Stephen Jay Gould
At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation. — Stephen Jay Gould
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other… — Stephen Jay Gould
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

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