Book Quote by Emma Donoghue

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books…

— Charlize Theron

All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize…

— Vikas Swarup

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland

I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's…

— Woody Allen

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

Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their…

— Josh Hutcherson

So you know, as a filmmaker you have to get it all right in the writing stage. After that, one has to leave it…

— Rajkumar Hirani

You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth of it…

— Alfonso Cuaron

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 think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

— Robyn Davidson

When you aren't doing too many films, people find other things to write about you.

— Arjun Kapoor