Always Quote by Joel Edgerton

I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.

— Sean Penn

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the…

— Angelina Jolie

Other people just look so comfortable with a book in their hands - I never feel like that.

— Bob Mortimer

When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of…

— David Nicholls

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts…

— Lena Dunham

Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.

— George Lucas

It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal…

— Frank Yerby

Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I just write by instinct and my screenplays are often the effort of a year-long penance on a subject.

— Anoop Menon

When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.

— Mark Waters

If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end.…

— Jeremy Sisto

Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger…

— Dani Shapiro