Adapt Quote by Vetrimaaran

It's always a challenge to adapt a novel for screen, a visual medium.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I found that inevitably you cannot fit everything that is in that book into what is inevitably going to go on screen.

— Mike Vogel

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

Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain…

— Graeme Base

I think it's really hard for filmmakers to adapt books.

— Ella Purnell

The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it…

— Philip Roth

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to…

— Justin Cronin

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

— Gillian Flynn

It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined.…

— Craig Ferguson

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