Accepting Quote by Hugh Dancy

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing…

— Atle Selberg

This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

— Christopher Hampton

If you understand each other's way of thinking, you understand what kind of film someone is trying to make, and all the ideas that…

— Stellan Skarsgard

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

— Amitabh Bachchan

Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

— Bruce Joel Rubin

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

— Ryan Gosling

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

— Julius Lester

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

— Richard Gere

“Widespread acceptance of an idea is not proof if its validity. -Robert Langdon”

— Dan Brown

I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has…

— Paul Auster

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

— Neil Gaiman