Adapting Quote by Lee Isaac Chung

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

— Ella Purnell

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

Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.

— Debra Granik

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

— Marjane Satrapi

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

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

I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it.

— David Grann

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.

— Nina Jacobson

As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.

— Gren Wells

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

— Emma Donoghue

Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts.

— Leon De Winter

When you read the book, you paint the picture but when you adapt a book then the audience will, by and large, say the…

— Vijay Krishna Acharya