Adapting Quote by Howard Gordon

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

— Louis Garrel

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

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

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the…

— John le Carre

. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think…

— Arthur Miller

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

— Richard Russo

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories…

— Satyajit Ray

Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large…

— Stephen Chbosky

Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make…

— James Lasdun

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when…

— John le Carre

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay…

— Barry Eisler

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier…

— Nicholas Sparks