Being Quote by Peter Jackson

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away…

— Ben Elton

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible…

— Richard Russo

I've adapted my own work a couple of times, and I've also given my novels to other people to adapt, and I do find…

— David Baddiel

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write…

— Nick Cave

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being…

— Kanika Dhillon

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

— Dana Brunetti

Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall…

— Akiva Goldsman

It's terrible for people when they really love a book and there's an adaptation and they don't like it, because it's almost like you…

— Killian Scott

I do think a good story in a novel is fair game and there's nothing wrong with adapting that. It sometimes gets a bit…

— Colin Firth

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

— Arthur Miller

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 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