Books Quote by Paul Auster

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

— Nicholas Sparks

I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you…

— Hal Hartley

There are very few films that work like a novel.

— Robert Schwentke

I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject…

— Woody Allen

I love Hollywood films and when they're done right, they're great. At the same time, I think it's always hard to come on to…

— Rupert Wyatt

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

In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs to be…

— Kanika Dhillon

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

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

— John Milius

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

— Neil Jordan

Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film…

— William S. Burroughs

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

— Edgar Allan Poe