Book Quote by Steven Spielberg

To me, movies are books. They are texts to be consulted.

— Guillermo del Toro

Movies are different from books and you need to be open to go into that difference.

— Violante Placido

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I think as an author you have to allow a movie to be separate from the book. It's an entirely different animal. I almost…

— Rainbow Rowell

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe…

— Graham Greene

Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film…

— William S. Burroughs

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

— Josh Hutcherson

I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into…

— Gillian Flynn

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books…

— Charlize Theron

A few of my books, over the years, have been optioned for film. The subject matter of my books, however, is not exactly conducive…

— Richard Laymon

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

People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a…

— Jess Walter