Adapt Quote by Michael Stuhlbarg

The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless…

— Akira Kurosawa

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible…

— Stendhal

I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be…

— Peter Weir

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

— Andrea Hirata

When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and we arrive…

— Philip Kitcher

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to…

— Franz Kafka

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population…

— Zakaria Tamer

“Of course, a literary work is a kind of nest: an elaborately and painstakingly woven nest of words incorporating chunks and fragments of the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

— Tryon Edwards

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

— Wole Soyinka