Book Quote by Kirk Douglas

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

Getting the book published and the movie made was not an easy task. But it helped. Because even though it's a difficult life to…

— Molly Bloom

This is a giant undertaking, but I consider this a personal film. It's my film of a lifetime. I read the book when I…

— Peter Jackson

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. A good adaptation of your book is worth it…

— Cassandra Clare

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

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

— Dustin Hoffman

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

— Christopher Walken

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

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

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

I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into…

— Gillian Flynn

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