Adaptation Quote by Stephen Chbosky

You start selling the movie before you make it.

— David Cronenberg

If you don't have a basic spend on marketing, there is no point releasing the film in theatres.

— Pooja Bhatt

When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.

— Alan Taylor

When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a…

— Milos Forman

Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product…

— Nia Long

People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a…

— Julianne Moore

If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five…

— Matt Haig

Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on…

— Willem Dafoe

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

— Thomas Perry

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

— Patricia Highsmith

Whether my film becomes commercially successful or not, only God can tell, or the box-office numbers. So why worry about it and get distracted?

— Huma Qureshi

Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It's abandoned or it's ripped out of your hands, and it's thrown into the…

— George Lucas