Books Quote by Robert Schwentke Download Open image “There are very few films that work like a novel.” — Robert Schwentke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Cinema Few Films Like Novel Very Work
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 Copy Share Image
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Quite often you get a lot of films with lots of story but no characterisation. — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm very eclectic in terms of what I like, what I read, what I watch, my own consumer behavior. — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
The movie doesn't do what you want it do. It just grows and then you have a movie at the end of it, hopefully. — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
I have a family. I'm married. I'm very, very happy. I wanted to make a movie for my wife and a movie that speaks… — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
It's not like you get up in the morning on the first day of shooting and say, 'I'm so smart today I'm going to… — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
The day you step on the floor the meter is ticking and time is of the essence. You can't really afford to not know… — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
I think you either have chemistry or you don't. If you could create chemistry in the editing room then there would be no films… — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
I read a script or I read a project or I read a novel and I know that I'm going to spend two to… — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that. — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
I think it's never mono-causal why you fall in love with something that you want to do. — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should… — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
