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

— Robyn Davidson

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

— Tom Clancy

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

— Yann Martel

I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a…

— Andrew Stanton

A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes people forget…

— Brian Selznick

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

People are usually so disappointed with book-to-movie translations.

— Allison Janney

Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is…

— Andrea Arnold

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to…

— Michael Haneke

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

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

— Jane Goldman

Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or…

— Elliott Colla