Actual Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

I have friends who are writers who have had movies made of their books, and they are almost uniformly horrified about what's been done…

— Diana Gabaldon

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do.

— Robyn Davidson

The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination…

— Jemaine Clement

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

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

— Katherine Dunn

I'd say the purest experience for the movie is not to have read the book because I think when you've read the book you're…

— Zack Snyder

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

Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

— Casey Affleck

When a movie based on a book comes out, people always say that the book is always better than the movie. So I'm always…

— Mannie Fresh