Book Quote by Khaled Hosseini

It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to…

— Keira Knightley

Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.

— Khaled Hosseini

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

For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have…

— Dana Brunetti

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and…

— Channing Tatum

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience

— Ed Harris

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

I really wish it would only take two hours to make a two-hour movie.

— Makoto Shinkai

I can't even imagine what it is like to make a movie that lasts two hours.

— Alex Prager

You need to be a good filmmaker to make a compelling two-minute film as well.

— Karthik Subbaraj

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

— Neil Jordan

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

— Colin Firth