Book Quote by Wim Wenders

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

— Brad Pitt

My way of deciding whether a film is worth doing is if you can get through it all in the first read.

— Fawad Khan

Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.

— Alden Ehrenreich

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

For me, the film-maker is more important than the story.

— Kay Kay Menon

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the…

— David Maraniss

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

— Christopher Hampton

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

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When I'm choosing films to work on, the first question I ask myself is, does this story stir my passion?

— Harshvardhan Kapoor