Adaptation Quotes

204 quotes by 182 authors

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British… — Tom Hiddleston
Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations. — Ellsworth Huntington
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention. — Daniel Kahneman
You are what you love. Not what loves you. — Charlie Kaufman
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I… — George R. R. Martin
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. — Henry Miller
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 the… — Alan Moore
I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps… — Alan Moore
My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations,… — Alan Moore
I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations. — Paula Radcliffe
If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily… — Marjane Satrapi
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me. — Stephen Sondheim
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions. — E. O. Wilson
When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations. — Ashwin Sanghi
Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, â€˜No, Iâ€™m not interested.â€™ I believe… — Paulo Coelho
People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary… — Stephen Jay Gould
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. — Albert Einstein
Adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey. We're simply not bested by bad air or tainted water. We're… — Janet Evanovich
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with… — H.G. Wells

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