Communication Quote by Yann Martel

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

— Colin Firth

When I write a screenplay - and I think it's one of the reasons why it was frustrating for me just to be a…

— James Gunn

I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to…

— Alan Lightman

In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs to be…

— Kanika Dhillon

You can't really imagine every moment of a movie in the same way that you wouldn't expect a novelist to envision every sentence of…

— Wayne Coyne

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

— Louis Garrel

It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie.…

— Alex Prager

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and…

— Channing Tatum

In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in…

— Laura Esquivel

It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to…

— Keira Knightley

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished…

— Vladimir Nabokov

When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my…

— Quentin Tarantino