Bloody Quote by Peter Greenaway

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

— Werner Herzog

You know, things that might work in a book just do not work in the visual medium of movies.

— Wes Ball

Whether you're Godard or Almodovar or Scorsese, it's text, text, text. Everything begins with the text, and this is a source of great anguish…

— Peter Greenaway

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

— Werner Herzog

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

— Werner Herzog

Graphic novels and comic books offer an easy foothold into that world, and screenwriters and studio execs gravitate toward those, because I think they…

— Ryan Reynolds

I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

— Alfred Hitchcock

I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order…

— Steven Hall

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

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

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.

— Peter Greenaway

By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world…

— Gary Oldman