Books Quote by Ray Bradbury

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

— Richard Russo

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets…

— Quentin Tarantino

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

— Louis Garrel

For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have…

— Dana Brunetti

I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to…

— Alan Lightman

Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large…

— Stephen Chbosky

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure.…

— Paul Auster

It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to…

— Keira Knightley

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and…

— Channing Tatum

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that…

— James Ellroy