Beat Quote by Tilda Swinton

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and…

— Evangeline Lilly

The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture the essence…

— Lawrence Kasdan

The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination…

— Jemaine Clement

“...each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. ...whenever…

— Paulo Coelho

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the…

— Salman Rushdie

When you read the book, you paint the picture but when you adapt a book then the audience will, by and large, say the…

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

“The important thing is that another medium—stage, film, music—doesn’t obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with stars and…

— Lois Lowry

All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize…

— Vikas Swarup

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

— Peter Sarsgaard

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of…

— William Boyd

The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.

— Avi Lewis

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately.…

— Sam Raimi