Quotes About Adaptation

We are not exposed to ice much in Florida.

When TV came in, it closed a lot of theatres. Even the 'ice' shows melted away.

I like to spend time with senior actors before going on set to break the ice. On set, I just look at them as co-actors.

Any time you change something classic or iconic, you're going to have some part of the fan base up in arms.

Everyone can throw a football, but if you can't ID fronts, if you can't see pressure, you're not going to last long.

My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.

Everyone thinks living abroad is fun... The ideal life. Take it from me - it's tough.

Sometimes, we set ourselves up for this perfect ideal scenario and when it doesn't go that way, it's hard to deal with.

By now, we all know that our every move online can be tracked and traced, and that, ideally, services learn from and adapt to customers based on an artful deployment of that data.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

If you look at my filmography my second film 'Akash Vani' had nothing to do with the genre that I am identified with.

In 2-D, the way you draw defines you, but in CG the computer takes away your identity.

I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.

I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

Every project is different. Adapting 'Robopocalypse' would be totally different than adapting, say, 'Hunger Games.' Each project has its own life and its own identity. You get into trouble when you think there's one single way to approach everything. Each project, there's a different way to attack it.

I'm not an idiot; I can make adjustments to my life. But I like having a schedule.

I've been in the 'Idol' bubble, and now it's popped, and I don't know what's going to happen.

I think 'American Idol' has prepared me for anything.

'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.

I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way. Truth be told, I couldn't.

When I started, I was a theater actress, and there were roles that I couldn't imagine not playing, like Rosalind in 'As You Like It.' I used to think I would die if I could play that. But then I started doing movies, and I had children, and I moved to Los Angeles. And now I kind of can't remember what those roles would be.