Books Quote by Richard Russo

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

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

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

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

— Ray Bradbury

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

— Steven Bochco

There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements and introspection…

— Nicholas Sparks

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get…

— Jay McInerney

Every film is faced with the enemy of time. Only so much story can fit into the 90-150 minutes of time that moviegoers are…

— Alex Gibney

If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end.…

— Jeremy Sisto

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the…

— Howard Gordon

Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure…

— Geoffrey Ward

You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in…

— Walter Kirn