Book Quote by John le Carre Download Open image “Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.” — John le Carre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Cubes Movie Seeing
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Everything I've wanted to turn into a film becomes something new and different when it becomes a movie... Each time I work with an… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“because a book lets your imagination soar and a movie makes all the decisions for you. A book is almost always, but not always,… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“and the wood smoke will roll out of the fireplace on to the carpet we paid too much for on that rainy afternoon in… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Middle children weep longer than their brothers and sisters. Over her mother’s shoulder, stilling her pains and her injured pride, Jackie Lacon watched the… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image