Justice Quote by S. A. David

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of…

— Dino De Laurentiis

“A picture with one word on it is like a thousand-and-one-word piece of literature. At this rate, I should be done with my million-word…

— Jarod Kintz

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even…

— Paul Auster

“A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a thousand words is only three pages.”

— M.R. Mathias

“time. Take a lot of it at the beginning of the writing process. I’m not talking about hours or even days. I’m talking about…

— John Truby

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

“Only a reader can understand how a book with 100 pages can be too long and one with 1000 pages can be too short.”

— Sofija

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

“Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests, Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending.”

— Ray Bradbury

“A novel has to entertain -- that's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“A book is not complete till it reaches a reader.”

— Aman Jassal

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

— Ray Bradbury