Book Quote by Wes Ball Download Open image “You know, things that might work in a book just do not work in the visual medium of movies.” — Wes Ball ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Movie Movies Things Visual Work
I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture… — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different entities in… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
When you keep things responsible and manageable, you can make some interesting movies that you maybe couldn't make otherwise. — Wes Ball Copy Share Image
I had this project called 'Ruin' in my head for six years or so. This really big, really ambitious sci-fi thing. It's kind of… — Wes Ball Copy Share Image
I have a few filmmaker friends who are known for shooting super-fast, and they say that you don't have the time to over-think things… — Wes Ball Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do a very fun, adventurous kind of car chase, and the opening of 'Ruin' is essentially like the 'Star Wars'… — Wes Ball Copy Share Image
For me personally, when I was a kid, that's like the stuff I wanted to watch - all the R-rated stuff. — Wes Ball Copy Share Image
Movies are made in the scriptwriting process and prepping and preparations for the shooting process. — Wes Ball Copy Share Image
Everything is always against you when making a movie, and if you don't have a solid blueprint that the entire team can get behind… — Wes Ball Copy Share Image
We storyboard a lot, but I love when we are just going in there and just, almost on the fly, making stuff and discovering… — Wes Ball Copy Share Image
When you're out there trying to still figure things out, it can just slow things down. So you have to kind of think on… — Wes Ball Copy Share Image
'Jurassic Park' is probably the movie that got me wanting to make movies. It's fun, but it's not totally gruesome. — Wes Ball Copy Share Image
My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I do is… — Wes Ball Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image