Quotes About Adaptation

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

Scenes change while shooting. Nowadays, while you're shooting the movie, you're cutting at the same time.

I remember thinking that I'd never show my arms on TV, but over time you loosen up.

Don't try to be consistent; it is a waste of time. Just try to update your truth with the real truth!

Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in the air!

I like to take on a different role every time or else I make myself bored.

I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.

When you're fast when you're shooting, there are great things that you discover. By being fast you also sometimes get more time to experiment.

The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.

There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.

A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same

I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.

Mobile is no longer about what you can do on your cell phone. Mobile is all about doing more, all of the time.

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

Laws are the DNA of government. They must evolve with time.

I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.