Animal Quote by Rainbow Rowell

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can…

— Katherine Paterson

Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you…

— Jennifer Lawrence

Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.

— Julian Barratt

It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the…

— Jonathan Tropper

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

A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different entities in…

— Andrea Riseborough

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two…

— Josh Hutcherson

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

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something…

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately.…

— Sam Raimi

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

— Katherine Dunn