Books Quote by Paulo Coelho

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 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

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

“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

“The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

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

When you read the book, you paint the picture but when you adapt a book then the audience will, by and large, say the…

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

— Jonathan Nolan

I've done quite a few films that are based on books, and it's always nerve-wracking because there's an audience who has read and loved…

— Angourie Rice

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

— Morris Gleitzman

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