Book Quote by Peter Mendelsund

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 a film that takes place in the mind of the reader.”

— Paulo Coelho

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into…

— Iain Banks

“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

I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.

— Charles Dance

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

— Katherine Dunn

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

— Dana Brunetti

“The books must be read, not seen in a movie.”

— M.Z.Riffi

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not…

— Marjane Satrapi

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

All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize…

— Vikas Swarup

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