Book Quote by Clive Owen

A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different entities in…

— Andrea Riseborough

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

Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.

— Julian Barratt

Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film…

— William S. Burroughs

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

— Katherine Dunn

I think as an author you have to allow a movie to be separate from the book. It's an entirely different animal. I almost…

— Rainbow Rowell

It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined.…

— Craig Ferguson

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can…

— Katherine Paterson

It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the…

— Jonathan Tropper

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into…

— Iain Banks

A movie is very different when you're writing the script and you're building a story compared to what the final product is.

— Andy Muschietti