Adapting Quote by Lasse Hallstrom

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are…

— Ajay Devgan

As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in this world,…

— Kevin Keck

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

— Nicholas Sparks

The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original…

— Walter Salles

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

— Steven Bochco

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see…

— Neil Jordan

I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.

— Peter Weir

One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always…

— T.C. Boyle

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

— Zadie Smith