Adaptation Quote by Karina Longworth

I think what happens normally in a narrative film is that the camera constructs the reality.

— Sam Seder

The biggest thing that I came across, right off the bat, was that you can't shoot this like a regular movie with multiple takes.…

— Charlie Kaufman

In a film, you only have a finite amount of time, and you're so concerned with saying what happened and making it a gripping…

— Lisa Joy

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

— Donnie Yen

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

— Ray Bradbury

“To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as…

— C.S. Lewis

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.

— Ray Harryhausen

When you do a movie, you shoot, and then you go away. A lot of the times you walk about from the movie, you…

— Chris Messina

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

— Yann Martel

Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes…

— Lenny Abrahamson

When you direct a film, everything should be about the story and nothing else.

— Esra Saydam

The mystery of film is not in the script. It's in the shooting, in the interacting of humans and space and time.

— Sebastian Lelio