Best film Quote by Iain Banks Download Open image “By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.” — Iain Banks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Best film Best Films Book Books Books Make Cinema Film Reckoning Reckoning Worst Usual Worst Worst Books
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies. — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
There's so many films made out of bad books, and I don't have time for those. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there. — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
When a movie based on a book comes out, people always say that the book is always better than the movie. So I'm always… — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all! — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.” — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“We're not in prison, we're not junkies and we're not Young Tories...it's no small achievement.” — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“He hit and fatally injured my innocent and unfortunate uncle whose muttered last words in hospital, before his coma became a full stop, were:… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
For me, 'Come and See' is, by a million miles, the best film about war that has ever been made. I would highly recommend,… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
The most important thing for Quentin and the most important thing for me is to make the best film possible. — Robert Richardson Copy Share Image
I just try to make the best film possible, and once the movie's done, we deal with the DVD. — John Singleton Copy Share Image
Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third… — Joseph Cotten Copy Share Image
We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't… — Keenen Ivory Wayans Copy Share Image
But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The most important part of filmmaking is the collaboration and the ensemble element of it. If you just all focus on the task and… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
When I started acting, my mom said, "If you want to go to film school and eventually direct, being on set is probably the… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
Tom Hanks hits a new career peak. One of the best films of the year. — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
It's a privilege. It's a real honor. It's a challenge. Michael and I always feel we stand on tall shoulders when we make these… — Barbara Broccoli Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
