Adaptation Quote by Walter Salles

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories…

— Satyajit Ray

I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

— Ralph Fiennes

I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those…

— Alexander Payne

In this world that we live in we have originality in literature, but we also have TV and movies. I write love stories. I…

— Nicholas Sparks

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I wanted to do films because I loved certain stories.

— Nushrat Bharucha

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

— Jodie Foster

Almost all the movies I've directed are adaptations. And I think what I found when I went to film school, where they try to…

— James Franco

I really want to do film, but I want to do the right film. The truth for me is that I'm really driven by…

— Condola Rashad

I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so…

— Sarah Polley

Many filmmakers start off with an autobiographical film from childhood, and that's kind of what I was thinking I would do, but other projects…

— Lee Isaac Chung