Books Quote by Louis de Bernieres

The way I see film is I think film is like going out to dinner. I feel it's a banquet. You don't want to…

— Guillermo del Toro

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

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of…

— William Boyd

There are very few films that work like a novel.

— Robert Schwentke

If you ask my opinion, I don't look at a film according to its box office collection.

— Kamal Haasan

The difficulty with film is you always have to consign a story to being a certain length, whereas with a book you don't have…

— Emilia Fox

To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one…

— Andre Øvredal

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

— Steven Bochco

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If you are an industry kid, the first film is given to you on a platter. However, the pressure and expectations are immense.

— Radhika Apte

I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive…

— Ira Sachs

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a…

— David Mitchell