Adapting Quote by Julian Barratt

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

— Katherine Dunn

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two…

— Josh Hutcherson

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

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

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not…

— Marjane Satrapi

Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately, they [moviemakers]…

— Jonathan Tropper

It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the…

— Jonathan Tropper

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

— Marjane Satrapi

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

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

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into…

— Iain Banks

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