Action Quote by Tom Perrotta

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and…

— Channing Tatum

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

— Roman Coppola

For me, making a mass film is tougher. A lot of things needed to be intertwined into a two-hour narrative without getting too complicated.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the…

— James McAvoy

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as…

— Paul Auster

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of…

— Dino De Laurentiis

I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to…

— Alan Lightman

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my…

— David Twohy

My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.

— Frederick Wiseman

If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size…

— Brian Helgeland

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

— Lucy Walker

It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the…

— Jonathan Tropper