Books Quote by David Mitchell

“The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Katherine Dunn

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even…

— Paul Auster

“The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“Cinema is a reflection of reality. But you will feel things that you want to Existentially.”

— Pradeesh

“I feel there's nothing like a good classic book, except possibly its movie version.”

— George Kohlman

Essentially I feel like all of that pressure when you're making the first of a franchise of [movies based on] books that mean so…

— Jamie Dornan

“The important thing is that another medium—stage, film, music—doesn’t obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with stars and…

— Lois Lowry

“But it's like the feeling you get at the end of a book you love.”

— Stuart Murdoch

I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

— Morris Gleitzman

The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding. That's what…

— Angelina Jolie

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

— Gillian Flynn