Book Quote by Robert Benton

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

— Josh Hutcherson

Films are always different from books.

— William Kircher

I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

— Stef Penney

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay…

— Barry Eisler

Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one…

— Roma Downey

Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up.…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into…

— Gillian Flynn

While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them that while…

— Julie Klassen

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them…

— Walter Kirn

Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.

— Bruce Joel Rubin

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

— Don DeLillo

There are times when a film turns out differently from how it was narrated. But I don't look at it as a bad thing.

— Diljit Dosanjh