Able Quote by Tom Ford

Film as a medium, like a novel as a medium, possesses a unique ability to communicate. Film is capable of communicating in a way…

— Bennett Miller

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

You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and…

— Thomas Perry

Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure…

— Geoffrey Ward

When you decide you want to make a film, you start listening to everything that anyone has to say about filmmaking and reading everything,…

— Tom Ford

Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up.…

— Melissa Rosenberg

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

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

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just…

— Lisa See

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

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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