Adaptation Quote by Marjane Satrapi

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

— Dana Brunetti

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write…

— Nick Cave

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

Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.

— Julian Barratt

It's terrible for people when they really love a book and there's an adaptation and they don't like it, because it's almost like you…

— Killian Scott

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

— Christopher Hampton

Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that…

— Lois Lowry

Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is…

— Andrea Arnold

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away…

— Ben Elton

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

— Katherine Dunn

Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately, they [moviemakers]…

— Jonathan Tropper