Book Quote by Christopher Hampton

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Neil Jordan

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. A good adaptation of your book is worth it…

— Cassandra Clare

I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to…

— Alan Lightman

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

— Kenneth Oppel

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

— Christopher McQuarrie

You can't guarantee that you'll make a great movie, but you can make a greater effort than I made at trying to see that…

— Bob Odenkirk

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

— Christopher Hampton

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

— Jonathan Nolan

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

Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you…

— Jennifer Lawrence

My way of deciding whether a film is worth doing is if you can get through it all in the first read.

— Fawad Khan