Book Quote by Noah Hathaway

Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

— Bruce Joel Rubin

You know, things that might work in a book just do not work in the visual medium of movies.

— Wes Ball

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

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 never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are…

— Don Winslow

We used to say a movie could never come close to a book, but no one reads books anymore.

— Rose Troche

Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

— David Mitchell

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.

— Alan Bates

I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

— Morris Gleitzman

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

“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