Based Quote by Peter Dinklage

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

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

— Christopher Hampton

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

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

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

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

— Katherine Dunn

A book is a book, but a movie is a movie. The more faithful you are, the more you'll come up with Harry Potter…

— Alexander Payne

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 don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

— Anthony Minghella

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