Books Quote by Ruth Ozeki

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

— Ruth Ozeki

The difficulty with film is you always have to consign a story to being a certain length, whereas with a book you don't have…

— Emilia Fox

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make…

— Roger Corman

Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment…

— Anita Elberse

Back in the 70s it cost 15-20$ a shot for the film, the processing, and the contact sheet, now it’s twice that.

— Stephen Shore

The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half…

— Woody Allen

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down.…

— Connie Nielsen

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

— Neil Jordan

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

There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it…

— Richard Linklater

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by…

— Renny Harlin

We didn’t want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive.…

— Julie Delpy