Able Quote by Walter Kirn

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

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure.…

— Paul Auster

The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character…

— Scott Rudin

I find that in preparation for a drama you can do a lot of character work and develop the character and know what you…

— Michelle Monaghan

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them…

— Walter Kirn

If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it…

— Justin Cronin

I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If…

— Dan Brown

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the…

— John le Carre

Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large…

— Stephen Chbosky

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want…

— Kazuo Ishiguro