Book Quote by Yann Martel

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If…

— James Franco

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

— Tom Clancy

I don't think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can't convey the right emotion, fuel your imagination or allow…

— Sonam Kapoor

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

— Jane Goldman

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

— Robyn Davidson

I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a…

— Andrew Stanton

If you understand a scene well, it is not hard to translate it onscreen.

— Waheeda Rehman

In fact, I feel that cinema has no language.

— Pratik Gandhi

Bilingual films come with a certain inbuilt practical problem with respect to the setting of the story and the dialect.

— Mani Ratnam

I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie…

— Joel Siegel

A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes people forget…

— Brian Selznick

We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into it. They…

— Ciro Guerra