Books Quote by Julian Fellowes

It's always a challenge to adapt a novel for screen, a visual medium.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

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

I think it's really hard for filmmakers to adapt books.

— Ella Purnell

I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what…

— Robert Rodriguez

With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle…

— Juliette Lewis

I've adapted my own work a couple of times, and I've also given my novels to other people to adapt, and I do find…

— David Baddiel

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure.…

— Paul Auster

For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

— Cillian Murphy

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

— Dana Brunetti

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

— Steven Bochco

I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to…

— Alan Lightman