Book Quote by Paulo Coelho

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

The book's always better than the movie.

— Richelle Mead

“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

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

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

I'd say the purest experience for the movie is not to have read the book because I think when you've read the book you're…

— Zack Snyder

“...each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. ...whenever…

— Paulo Coelho

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even…

— Paul Auster

Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure…

— Geoffrey Ward

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

— Neil Jordan