Better Quote by Christopher Hampton

Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies.

— Stephen Moyer

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…

— Christopher Hampton

I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and…

— Quentin Tarantino

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get…

— Jay McInerney

If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end.…

— Jeremy Sisto

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

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

I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are…

— Don Winslow

Usually with me, the ideas I have for movies just sort of pop into my head. I've read a bunch of screenwriting books over…

— Leigh Whannell

There's so many films made out of bad books, and I don't have time for those.

— Stellan Skarsgard

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

— Anthony Minghella

Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the…

— Orhan Pamuk