Big book Quote by Robin Furth

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

— Carlton Cuse

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If…

— James Franco

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

— Robyn Davidson

The graphic novel is a great form that can be used to marry the book format with the movie.

— Melvin Van Peebles

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

— Ann Goldstein

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic…

— Michael Cunningham

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

— Jane Goldman

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

— Nathalie Sarraute

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

— Katherine Paterson

I don't think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can't convey the right emotion, fuel your imagination or allow…

— Sonam Kapoor

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

— Marjane Satrapi

“I’ve learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. It is not, of…

— Michael Cunningham