Book Quote by Neil Jordan

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

— Casey Affleck

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

— Christopher Hampton

All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize…

— Vikas Swarup

I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.

— Jasper Fforde

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

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the…

— Paulo Coelho

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books…

— Charlize Theron

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

Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you…

— Jennifer Lawrence

“because a book lets your imagination soar and a movie makes all the decisions for you. A book is almost always, but not always,…

— Dorothea Benton Frank