Birth Quote by Harmony Korine

Film has changed vastly in the time that I've been an actor, and it's, I think, very much for the better. I think there…

— John Hurt

A great novel is worth one thousand films.

— Oscar Hijuelos

This is a giant undertaking, but I consider this a personal film. It's my film of a lifetime. I read the book when I…

— Peter Jackson

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

— Sean Lennon

You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and alive, decade…

— Woody Allen

I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

I've done more than 100 films, which is a sizeable chunk of life in cinema, so if something can startle me, then I think…

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes…

— Lenny Abrahamson

There are very few films that work like a novel.

— Robert Schwentke

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

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure.…

— Paul Auster

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

— Colin Firth