Quotes About Adaptation

If you're not in a place where you're grateful that your show keeps getting renewed, and you can't figure out a way to keep it fresh, you should pick another career.

Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dream' so many times, and each time it's a little different, or a different line leaps out at me. It's like re-reading a good book over and over, always noticing something you hadn't seen the time before - and that's rare.

'Rent' was wonderful in that I was able to adapt something that was beloved to fans, something that was very iconic, but something I had nothing to do with the creation of, so I was very removed. 'Perks' is different because it was my book.

Airbnb was born out of necessarity. Our rent went up. It was born out of a problem.

We got really creative. No longer are we just going up to people on the streets or parks or supermarkets. Instead, we would rent a whole location and then film there over an entire week.

We lived in 14 different houses until I was 8, renting here and there.

Everybody out here has to get better and has to rep and has to learn and has to make mistakes, make plays, do good things, do bad things and learn from them.

I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I continue to make films, in fact, it is because I always want to repair my films. My inner rhythm has changed; I have changed. I have changed my way to film.

There are fewer roles, and I've done so many things already that I don't want to repeat, so to find something you haven't done is harder. I don't want to play a country singer again.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

When I first did 'The Lord of the Rings,' I was acting on the set with the other actors, but then I had to go back and repeat the process on my own to do the physical capture on a motion capture stage.

I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.

Whenever you have a failure or setback, you need to take a step back and find out what you can learn from the scenario. What did you do to contribute to that failure? This way, you can make sure you don't repeat that pattern.

The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.

We are ever evolving and never repeat ourselves.

You can't repeat the success of any movie.

What I am always careful about is not to repeat the same kind of roles.

It' always so sad to see people spend the rest of their careers just trying to repeat the formula.

Obviously we have a sensibility that's aligned to everything we've done but we try not within certain ways to repeat ourselves.

If you work hard enough I don't think it's possible to just repeat what you're doing.