Being Quote by Gregory Keyes

It takes a long time to put a movie together. It can take years.

— Tom Green

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

— Richard Russo

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and…

— Channing Tatum

It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to…

— Keira Knightley

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

Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

— David Mitchell

There will be great books. There will be great films. Sometimes, if we are lucky, the two will intersect.

— Maria Konnikova

For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have…

— Dana Brunetti

Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger…

— Dani Shapiro

I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to…

— Alan Lightman

I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order…

— Steven Hall

I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.

— Ari Marcopoulos