Adaptation Quote by David Nicholls

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

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

— Julian Barratt

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

— Dana Brunetti

When you read the book, you paint the picture but when you adapt a book then the audience will, by and large, say the…

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two…

— Josh Hutcherson

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away…

— Ben Elton

Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall…

— Akiva Goldsman

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I…

— Paulo Coelho

Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that…

— Lois Lowry

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

— Katherine Dunn

The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination…

— Jemaine Clement

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