Adapting Quote by Paul Auster

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to…

— John Grisham

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

— Katherine Dunn

Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately, they [moviemakers]…

— Jonathan Tropper

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I…

— Paulo Coelho

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it…

— Edward Norton

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

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

I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those…

— Alexander Payne

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

Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is…

— Andrea Arnold

. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think…

— Arthur Miller