Books Quote by Catherine Jones

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

— Trent Reznor

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

— Christopher Hampton

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

— Neil Jordan

“because a book lets your imagination soar and a movie makes all the decisions for you. A book is almost always, but not always,…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

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

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a…

— Anonymous

Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are the books…

— Mortimer Adler

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

There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that…

— Lemmy Kilmister

“I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography…

— Brian Christian

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

— Casey Affleck