Books Quote by William Boyd

Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes…

— Lenny Abrahamson

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

— Nicholas Sparks

There are very few films that work like a novel.

— Robert Schwentke

Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.

— Barry Jenkins

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

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a…

— David Mitchell

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.

— Lewis Baltz

There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements and introspection…

— Nicholas Sparks

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

— Mia Wasikowska

Film has changed vastly in the time that I've been an actor, and it's, I think, very much for the better. I think there…

— John Hurt

A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or…

— Lisa Yuskavage

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

— Salman Rushdie