Book Quote by Jennifer Lawrence

The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination…

— Jemaine Clement

If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the…

— Clive Owen

A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different entities in…

— Andrea Riseborough

I think as an author you have to allow a movie to be separate from the book. It's an entirely different animal. I almost…

— Rainbow Rowell

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

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately.…

— Sam Raimi

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

— Neil Jordan

I never read a book if I'm auditioning for a film based on it. I like to stick to the script only because that's…

— Sophie Nelisse

Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film…

— William S. Burroughs

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

— Jonathan Nolan

It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined.…

— Craig Ferguson